Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename. Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 09:33:17 GMT References: <19025@rpp386.cactus.org> <2902@charon.cwi.nl> <5857@auspex.auspex.com> <1991Feb13.120201.13608@eik.ii.uib.no> Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Distribution: comp Organization: The World Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: s082@brems.ii.uib.no's message of 13 Feb 91 12:02:01 GMT From: s082@brems.ii.uib.no >Just one thing: Why would anyone want a slash (or any such character) a >filename in the first place? Perhaps the file name was in Norwegian? :-) (it's usually another machine, like a macintosh, using NFS to the unix system and creating a file name like "Expense 12/2/91" which is legal and common on macs.) Doesn't norwegian use o-slash and all that? -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | uunet!world!bzs Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD