Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Ghost file Keywords: ghost, unprintable, unlink Message-ID: <544@auspex.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 18:57:38 GMT References: <17529@adm.BRL.MIL> <8430@alice.UUCP> <169@pinn.UUCP> <303@bilver.UUCP> <795@levels.sait.edu.au> Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 10 > char name[] = "badfile?"; > name[7] = (char) 255; Or char name[] = "badfile\377"; which is slightly more convenient. I sincerely *hope* your compiler can cope with that (although it's not inconceivable that the compiler writer dropped the ball)....