Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!guyton@rand-unix From: guyton@rand-unix@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: funny characters in filenames Message-ID: <3782@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Aug-83 14:05:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.3782 Posted: Wed Aug 3 14:05:00 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Aug-83 03:56:36 EDT Lines: 22 James Bray asks: But please tell me, anyone, if you can think of a good use for unprintables in filenames. I have three examples that come to mind: 1) USC-ISI used control characters to fake version numbers in their implementation of Interlisp. 2) T[w]enex often puts control characters in filenames to make them hard to delete (the archive directory used to be kept in the user's directory with a bizarre filename). 3) Our IBM folks put a blank and a backspace in the name of our Wylbur keyword file (to try and make it harder for hackers to try and crack it). One point is clear from the above, Unix isn't the only OS that allows bizarre characters in filenames. -- Jim