Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!hsdndev!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename. Message-ID: <15226@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 16 Feb 91 20:31:40 GMT References: <1991Feb13.120201.13608@eik.ii.uib.no> <653@uswnvg.UUCP> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 14 In article rauscher@remus.rutgers.edu (Rich Rauscher) writes: >Yeh, it's possible to type this but in almost all versions >of Unix, you'll just get an error 'No such >file or directory' or something like it. This will >happen whether you're in a shell or application. Look, guys, if you feel obligated to drag this discussion out, you should go back and check the posting that started it. The problem is not that a user DESIRED to have a pathname COMPONENT with a slash embedded in it; the problem is that a deficient implementation ALLOWED one to be created, but it was much more difficult to fix the situation once it had occurred. If you don't by now know how this could have occurred, you should not be prolonging the discussion.