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

[Barry Shein]

From: s082 at brems.ii.uib.no
>Just one thing: Why would anyone want a slash (or any such character) a
>filename in the first place?

Perhaps the file name was in Norwegian? :-)

(it's usually another machine, like a macintosh, using NFS to the unix
system and creating a file name like "Expense 12/2/91" which is legal
and common on macs.)

Doesn't norwegian use o-slash and all that?
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        -Barry Shein

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