filename separators and option indicators

[Jeffrey Mulligan]

cjc at ulysses.att.com (Chris Calabrese[mav]) writes:

>In article <1990May31.065335.10406 at agate.berkeley.edu>, dankg at lightning.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai) writes:

>> 	Gee, I knew that:  You can quote file name in shell and just do
>> fopen("~!@#$%^&*()-_=+[{]}\\|\'\";:?.>,<", "w") in c source or anything but
>> in reality those drive your shell nuts.

>Not only does the shell not have problems with punctuation marks, but
>it even handles non-printable characters without complaining.

I think he should have said "in reality those will drive many users nuts."
Of course wizards aren't fazed, since they already are nuts :-)



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