filename separators and option indicators

[Ralf Brown]

In article <1990May30.045903.14249 at agate.berkeley.edu> dankg at ocf.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Kogai) writes:
}a lot of CLIs, I love UNIX the best and always have trouble typing "A:\foo\bar"
}but none of CLI implementation of delimiter will be intuitive enough.
}On Macintosh, thanks to GUI, only ":" is reserved as delimiter and it's
}directory delimiter.  That makes MPW users (Hi, robert!) hard to deal with
}files but for the "rest of them" it's nice to be able to make such file names
}as "Foo killed bar's blech".

total 240
-rw-r--r--  1 ralf            0 May 30 07:29 Foo killed bar's bletch
-rw-r--r--  1 ralf       231682 May 30 07:11 frain13r.zip

You were saying?...  The only printable character you CAN'T put into a Unix
filename is the forward slash.

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