4 Mar
2008
4 Mar
'08
5:14 a.m.
--- Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
True - you CAN create filenames with forward slashes
in them. You CAN do pretty much anything you want to
in a UNIX environment. I think the only thing you
CAN'T call a file is . or ..
But, if you do, it's a PITA to work with that file
later... I should have said that "it's not a good
idea" to create filenames with slashes in them.
Ack! I didn't intend to start a flame war!
-Ian
> The
brackets look OK, but are kinda funny when
used in file names,
> and you can't use the // in file names at
all,
for obvious reasons.
Oh, come now, not *everything* is Unix. :-)
And there really isn't any reason one cannot create
filenames with
slashes in them in UNIX. The only OS I know of that
completely
prohibits it is Windows.