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From: cjc@ulysses.att.com (Chris Calabrese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Slashes in file names
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Date: 19 Feb 91 15:32:49 GMT
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In article <15898.27bc3908@levels.sait.edu.au> xtdn@levels.sait.edu.au writes:
>sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>> BSD has been using EINVAL to indicate an illegal filename (8-bit
>> set in one or more of the characters), I believe.

[ stuff about sVr1 intro(2) deleted]

>So SysV has allowed filenames with 8-bit set for ages.  Sorry that I don't
>have access to BSD right now, but I wouldn't think that it was different.
>Am I wrong?

8-bit seems to work on BAD to me:

936) > kk^?
937) ls kk*
kk?
938) echo kk* | od -c
0000000    k   k 177  \n
0000004

This is on a Solboune (Sun 4 clone) running OS/SMP 4.0D_Export
(something like SunOS 4.0.3) with the BSD Fast File System.

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