Slashes in file names

Oliver Laumann net at opal.cs.tu-berlin.de
Mon Feb 18 19:44:32 AEST 1991


In article <6104 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> Yup - in fact, that dates all the way back to V7, and even earlier (I
> don't think V6 disallowed them, either - dunno if any of its
> predecessors did).

Yeah.  I'm sure you remember the

   $ date > "foo"
   $ rm foo
   foo: non-existent
   $ rm "foo"
   $

botch of the V6 shell.

Regards,
--
    Oliver Laumann,  Technical University of Berlin,  Germany.
    net at tub.cs.tu-berlin.de  net at tub.UUCP  net at pogo.ai.mit.edu



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