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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Slashes in file names
Message-ID: <6177@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 20:33:12 GMT
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>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

There aren't any 8-bit characters there, unless those "k"s are really "k
with the 8th bit turned on"; rubout isn't an 8-bit character - it has
the bottom seven bits turned on, but not the 8th bit.

Also, SunOS ain't BSD; the checks for 8-bit characters were removed from
the SunOS file system code in 4.0.