FileNames with the high bit set.

Michael I. Bushnell mike at turing.UNM.EDU
Mon Apr 11 10:29:05 AEST 1988


Disallowing the high order bit in filenames was done in 4BSD.  I think
the reason had something to do with printability--a desire to limit
the filesystem namespace to ASCII codes.

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