From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!mcnc!rti!trt Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: rm ABC* Article-I.D.: rti.1021 Posted: Wed Feb 16 10:24:27 1983 Received: Sun Feb 20 13:08:14 1983 References: turtleva.160 Strangely named files have resulted in many wasted hours, much confusion, and many uninteresting net articles (such as this one). So please consider the following proposal: UNIX should accept only filenames with printable characters. More specifically, the kernel's namei should verify that all characters in the filename are 'isprint', as defined by. In my experience, filenames with weird characters are *always* mistakes. (Hmm, sometimes they have been intentional ... and malicious.) I am going to change some local namei()s as an experiment. But, really, what problems could there be compared to the huge nuisance we have currently? Tom Truscott