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From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: bad filenames
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Date: 20 May 88 00:54:37 GMT
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   In article <14418@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
   >   From: David Goodenough <dg@lakart.uucp>
   >   Since this is a UNIX group I'm going to ask "how was a file with a '/'
   >   in it's name created?" I *_CANT_* do it here (BSD 4.3).
   >
   >By a stray neutrino zapping the directory entry.

   If you use memory and disk without ECC, you deserve to lose this way.
   (Unfortunately, I think most personal computers don't have any memory
   ECC -- users of A/UX should flame heavily at Apple about this.)

What makes you think ECC works *ALL THE TIME*? Just mostly.

   Barry Margolin
   Thinking Machines Corp.

   barmar@think.com
   uunet!think!barmar

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