From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!greep@Su-Dsn
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: dsw
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.888
Posted: Sun Mar 27 22:27:00 1983
Received: Mon Apr 18 23:50:54 1983

Regarding your file with a the first character null:

You could always just change the file name (change the null
to some legal character) by writing over the directory manually.
Of course Unix doesn't let you write directories, so first
you have to munge the directory's inode to make it look like
an ordinary file, and then unmunge it again after you rewrite
the directory (use "ls -f" to make sure you did it right).
I wrote a program to do inode munging once, but that was on
version 6 so it wouldn't be of much use now.

		- greep