On 18Dec2006 20:05, Felix Schwarz <Felix.Schwarz@xxxxxx> wrote:
| Cameron Simpson schrieb:
| >But they've been _allowed_ for decades; the only character you can't put
| >in a UNIX filename is a NUL ('\0') because the API uses C strings, which
| >are NUL terminated.
|
| I think "/" is a forbidden character too, isn't it?
Strange - there seem to be slashes all through _my_ pathnames!
Yes, it's a directory separator. Provided you make the directories if
needed you can pretend they're normal characters:-)
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