OT: DOS/Windows and slashes (was Re: Windows XP Pro and PossiblefilePro Bug)

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
Cc: "filePro List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: OT: DOS/Windows and slashes (was Re: Windows XP Pro and 
PossiblefilePro Bug)


> Fairlight wrote:
> [...]
>> > My finger slipped off the 'v' key onto the adjacent 'c' key and
>> > I type   ci <filename> when I wanted to type  vi <filename>.
>> > But that's how we learn isn't it?  Have you ever done that one?
>>
>> Yeah, I've buggered something into CVS that way.  Funnily, I was trying 
>> to
>> type CVS just now and -three- times in a row typed VCS instead before I
>> could force it to go right.  :)
>
> What about typing "print" and having an "f" magically appear after it?
>
> [...]
>> > Or things which come in from a Mac world where a / is permitted
>> > in a file name.  I have enough problems with <spaces> when things
>> > get moved cross-platform.
>>
>> I just tried escaping one in *nix and no joy.  (touch bli\/p)  You can
>> escape damned near everything else, including control characters.  Not
>> slashes.
>
> You can escape the slash all you want.  All that happens is that you end
> up with a slash, which is built into the kernel as the path separator.
> It's not possible to get a filename with a '/' or '\0' in it.  (Well, you
> could theoretically place a '/' in a filename with a raw disk editor, but
> I have no idea if you could ever access it.)

Strange. I was certain I remembered seeing a file with slashes in sco or 
freebsd as part of something to do with booting. like a file named 
"/etc/default/boot" on a boot floppy, or something in a /stand or /boot 
filesystem.

I just tried a few obvious things at the regular shell and couldn't create a 
file either.

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