filename separators and option indicators

[Chris Calabrese[mav]]

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.  As far as Unix has no Finder
> or SFDialog to access these files witout pain, we'd better stay away from
> those nasty punctuation marks...

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

Script started on Thu May 31 10:07:17 1990
619 telemachos_/papers/htor) > 'this is a #^$&$&&$Q test'
620 telemachos_/papers/htor) > 'this is a ^G ^C^B^A test'
621 telemachos_/papers/htor) ls this*
this is a #^$&$&&$Q test        this is a ^G ??? test
622 telemachos_/papers/htor) exit

script done on Thu May 31 10:07:33 1990
Name:			Christopher J. Calabrese
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