Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: tekbspa!tss!joe@uunet.uu.net (Joe Michel-Angelo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Yes, Virginia, you *can* have filenames containing '/' Message-ID: <597@tekbspa.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 88 12:26:36 GMT References: <5944@fluke.COM> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 15 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 24 Nov 88 04:00:53 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 39, message 6 of 13 jeff@tc.fluke.com (Jeff Stearns): > Most of us think of '/' as a separator in Unix pathnames, but it ain't > always so. I just created several files with '/' in the filenames > themselves. We noticed the same problem here with our mac network! Drove my find/cpio incremental backup scripts nutso! Time to "adb ." was the only thing on my mind... I finally resorted to breaking the > key on all the macs... Joe Angelo -- Senior Systems Engineer/Systems Manager Teknekron Software Systems, Palo Alto 415-325-1025 joe@tss.com - uunet!tekbspa!joe - tekbspa!joe@uunet.uu.net