Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!rauscher From: rauscher@remus.rutgers.edu (Rich Rauscher) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename. Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 91 16:29:53 GMT References: <19025@rpp386.cactus.org> <1991Feb13.120201.13608@eik.ii.uib.no> <653@uswnvg.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: Center for Discrete Math. and Theor. Comp. Sci. Lines: 18 >Maybe they didn't. How bout this sceniero. >person types: foo/bar and hits return >wanted to type: foo.bar and hit return >look at your keyboard. it is possible. 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. -Rich -- ------------- rauscher@rutgers.edu RPO 5997 PO 5063, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 rauscher@PISCES Shakespeare learns Discrete Math: {backbone site}!rutgers!rauscher (2B | not (2B)) <=> TRUE