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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Funny filenames: in the nick of time!
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Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 01:51:07 EDT
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> 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