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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:19:28 -0700
To: Wayne Willcox <wayne@reliant.immure.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com>
Subject: Re: Valid file-name characters
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Wayne,

As far back as Unix v6 (for a quaint old processor called the PDP-11) the 
only characters forbidden for use in Unix path names were the slash and the 
NUL.

Just out of curiosity, are there any Unix or Unix-alike systems with 
Unicode file name support? Linux? Windows?

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 14:01 2002-07-23, wayne wrote:
>you can use an escaped \ I think that is true in all unixs at least the 
>modern ones.


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