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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:12:20 -0500
From: Wayne Willcox <wayne AT reliant DOT immure DOT com>
To: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Valid file-name characters
Message-ID: <20020723171220.A40264@reliant.immure.com>
Reply-To: Wayne Willcox <wayne AT reliant DOT immure DOT com>
References: <3D3DBFF0 DOT 1070704 AT cox DOT net> <3D3999D5 DOT 2080904 AT cox DOT net> <91341174502 DOT 20020722110344 AT logos-m DOT ru> <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20020722174321 DOT 02b7a340 AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com> <3D3DBFF0 DOT 1070704 AT cox DOT net> <20020723160156 DOT A39594 AT reliant DOT immure DOT com> <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20020723151623 DOT 046d86e8 AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com>
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020723151623.046d86e8@pop3.cris.com>; from rrschulz@cris.com on Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:19:28PM -0700
X-Operating-System: FreeBSD reliant.immure.com 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

AIX supports unicode, not sure about others though.

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:19:28PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> 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.

-- 
Slowly and surely the unix crept up on the Nintendo user ...
Wayne Willcox                          I will not eat green eggs and ham
wayne AT reliant DOT immure DOT com                     I will not eat them Sam I Am!!
A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion.
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