From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!mcnc!rlgvax!guy Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: Re: Re: rm ABC* Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1067 Posted: Sat Feb 19 02:32:10 1983 Received: Sun Feb 20 09:59:36 1983 Close, but no cigar, as we say. The UNIX shell will strip off the 8th bit of the file name when it expands the "*", and as such rm will get called by the equivalent of: execl("/bin/rm", "rm", "-i", "ABC\001", (char *)NULL); and will reply "ABC\001 non-existent". Unless the C shell or whatever other shell you are running doesn't strip off the \200, you can't GET a string containing a character with its 8th bit on to a program through the shell. Guy Harris RLG Corporation ...!decvax!mcnc!rlgvax!guy