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From: net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Slashes in file names
Message-ID: <2687@kraftbus.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: 18 Feb 91 08:44:32 GMT
References: <1991Feb14.091853.19090@kithrup.COM> <15898.27bc3908@levels.sait.edu.au> <6104@auspex.auspex.com>
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <6104@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> Yup - in fact, that dates all the way back to V7, and even earlier (I
> don't think V6 disallowed them, either - dunno if any of its
> predecessors did).

Yeah.  I'm sure you remember the

   $ date > "foo"
   $ rm foo
   foo: non-existent
   $ rm "foo"
   $

botch of the V6 shell.

Regards,
--
    Oliver Laumann,  Technical University of Berlin,  Germany.
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