Ugly file name

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <9000 at csli.Stanford.EDU> by gandalf at csli.Stanford.EDU (Juergen Wagner):
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That we do.

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| 		/bin/rm './FILE'
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Thank you.  I was wondering how many times I'd have to read putative "wizards"
suggesting the nonexistent-filename kluge.  Did I fall into a net.warp into
comp.unix.questions?

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| 	characters can be typed by using ^V to prevent interpretation.
| 	(^V is the lnext character, it can be set with stty). Note that
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He directs followups to comp.unix.xenix, then pulls this boner.

REALITY CHECK FOR ALL THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN "There Is No Unix But Unix And
Berkeley Is Its Prophet":  XENIX IS BASED ON AT&T SYSTEM III/V!

There IS no "lnext" character.  Just type the control character.  It won't
show up on your terminal, but it'll be there.

++Brandon
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