Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!ron@brl-bmd From: ron@brl-bmd@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: funny characters in filenames Message-ID: <3788@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Aug-83 17:18:26 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.3788 Posted: Wed Aug 3 17:18:26 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Aug-83 04:15:01 EDT Lines: 12 From: Ron NatalieI remember back in the days of early computer days when we got our first HP timesharing system at school (I had gotten pretty good at repairing card punches and wiring up 403 program boards). Originally it was possible to use all kinds of characters in the file names. I always thought that "MAGIC[]" was a marvelous name for a magic square program. I was very disheartened when a new release came out forbidding anything other than alphanumerics in the file names. -Ron