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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: What prgorams choke on 8 bit
Message-ID: <479@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 22:57:17 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 12 22:57:17 1985
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References: <687@rtech.UUCP> <204@mips.UUCP>
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In article <204@mips.UUCP>, jmoore@mips.UUCP (Jim Moore) writes:
>> What UNIX programs are you aware of that have major problems with 8 bit
>> character sets?  One that comes quickly to mind is the Bourne shell,
>> which uses the 8th bit as a tag....
>
>In the case of path names, the UNIX kernel refuses to accept and 8 bit
>character set. System Vr2 returns EFAULT if an attempt is made to
>create a file whose name contains a character with the high bit set.
>4.2 BSD returns an EINVAL in the same case.
>
>Jim Moore
>MIPS Computer Systems

Huh?  On our System Vr2 3B20 I just created such a file name, viz:

$ ls

$ od -c .
0000000   4 020   .  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0
0000020  \0   !   .   .  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0
0000040   4 021 377  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0
0000060
                 ^
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