Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename.

[Rich Rauscher]

>Maybe they didn't.  How bout this sceniero.  

>person types:   foo/bar and hits return
>wanted to type: foo.bar and hit return

>look at your keyboard.  it is possible.

Yeh, it's possible to type this but in almost all versions
of Unix, you'll just get an error 'No such 
file or directory' or something like it.  This will
happen whether you're in a shell or application.

-Rich
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