Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-athena.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mit-athena!jc From: jc@mit-athena.UUCP (John Chambers) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: embedded '/' in a filename??? Message-ID: <94@mit-athena.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 16:13:10 EST Article-I.D.: mit-athe.94 Posted: Wed Feb 27 16:13:10 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Mar-85 03:25:55 EST References: <161@sbcs.UUCP> Organization: MIT Project Athena Lines: 11 I agree with the flames; I hope I never have a reason to want to do such a silly thing. My question is: how do you rename a file that has a '/' embedded in its name? I had to do this once. It was probably 2 bits flipped on the disk. I had to write a C program that went and diddled the specific byte in the file. I've had similar problems on almost every system I've worked on for more than a few months. Sure, file names shouldn't ever contain garbage char- acters. So what do you do when one pops up? John Chambers