From: utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!rlgvax!guy Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: rm ABC* Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1056 Posted: Thu Feb 17 07:22:25 1983 Received: Thu Feb 24 04:21:08 1983 I agree with you that non-printable characters in filenames are generally useless. I believe 4.2BSD prohibits them; some group of Interlisp hackers or somesuch got upset because they used non-printable characters to simulate the TENEX/TOPS-20/VMS file version number conventions - 4.2BSD with its long pathnames permits you to stick ";nnn" at the end for a version number, but their code had to change. As far as I am concerned, space through tilde is completely adequate. If people get upset about not being able to have a file name ^G^G^G\277xxx, they should consider all the people on systems where filenames can only consist of 9 or 12 upper-case alphanumerics, with a period before the last three characters... Guy Harris RLG Corporation (decvax!duke!mcnc!rlgvax!guy)