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From: schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: shell with da Silva lining
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Date: 16 Apr 91 00:59:22 GMT
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In article <50837@nigel.ee.udel.edu> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
   The real problem is that you are doing this under UNIX, where stdin and
   stdio are unstructured streams of bytes instead of something more 
   sophisticated. 

In this case, where you are dealing with pathnames, you can use '\0'
characters as record separators.