Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.CSNET Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!spaf From: spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Strange behavior with filenames Message-ID: <406@gatech.CSNET> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 17:58:30 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.406 Posted: Mon Jul 1 17:58:30 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 06:36:17 EDT Distribution: net Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech Lines: 17 Here's a good one for you. I'd like to know if anyone else has encountered this one before -- it might save me from bashing my head against the keyboard some. We're running 4.2 BSD (the BRL version) on all our Vaxen. If I create a file whose name begins with a ":" and then try to "cat" it, it works on the 780 but gives a "file: Error 0" message on the 750. This also happens on another site's 750 (in fact, it was discovered there -- credit to tas@dcc1). Does this happen to anyone else out there? Is this a well known and beloved bug? Am I hallucinating again? Anyone know a fix? -- Gene "3 months and holding" Spafford The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf