Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Kernel Hacks & Weird Filenames Message-ID: <52768@sun.uucp> Date: 11 May 88 00:17:09 GMT References: <13041@brl-adm.ARPA> <4895@chinet.UUCP> <574@minya.UUCP> <24@csnz.nz> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 12 > Does that mean that a naive user can make a file with a> in the name? Yup. > e.g. "John Doe" or "Job Cost" or other equally "intuitively correct" but > WRONG names...:-) Yup. As I presume you mean to imply, those names would be considered quite valid by some users. Many such users won't necessarily be using the traditional UNIX shells, so it might not be at all inconvenient to use names containing spaces.