Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!guy From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Funny filenames: in the nick of time! Message-ID: <2375@sun.uucp> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 01:51:07 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.2375 Posted: Tue Jul 2 01:51:07 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 20:08:10 EDT References: <1217@uwmacc.UUCP> <164@drivax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 14 > System V release 2 version 2 (or something like that) will not let you > create files that have the most significant bit set in any character > within the name. Hmmm... AT&T picks up one of the more debatable 4.2BSD features. At some point, presumably, UNIX will support an 8-bit character set (in order to include characters in non-English-language alphabets without stealing the positions that rightfully belong to things like '{'). When that happens, *somebody's* going to have to fix "sh" (and "csh", and...) not to use the MSB as a quoting bit, and the shell will finally allow you to talk about those files. Somebody's also going to have to remove that restriction from the kernel... Guy Harris