Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!veritas!amdcad!sun!aeras!rob From: rob@aeras.uucp (Rob Rogers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename. Summary: There's more to life than UNIX Message-ID: <1991Feb21.023533.23534@aeras.uucp> Date: 21 Feb 91 02:35:33 GMT Expires: 3/15/91 References: <19025@rpp386.cactus.org> <1991Feb13.120201.13608@eik.ii.uib.no> <653@uswnvg.UUCP> Reply-To: rob@aeras.UUCP (Rob Rogers) Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Distribution: usa Organization: Arix Corporation, San Jose, CA. Lines: 31 In article rauscher@remus.rutgers.edu (Rich Rauscher) writes: >>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 I belive the original poster said the file was transferred to his machine via NFS (from a different file system). Lots of other file systems don't think twice about a "/". For instance, a Macintosh uses ":" (colon) as its magic-directory-marker. Slashes (as well as spaces) in filenames are _very_ common. (I teach people that come from Macs to UNIX. It takes a long time to get used to _not_ putting a space in a name.) Good 'ole DOS uses "\". It doesn't think twice about a / in a filename. The whole world isn't UNIX, ya know (too bad). -- Rob Rogers Art Director, ARIX Computer Corporation {mips|sun|wyse|jade}!aeras!rob <> rob@aeras.UUCP <> 73377.1017@compuserve.com <> GEnie=R.ROGERS10 <> AOL=MacGun