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On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 23:58, David Cantrell wrote: > Peter da Silva wrote: > > > UNIX lets you do it too. And there have been applications as far back as the > > V6 era that did. > > I once created a file with a / in its name on SCO. I have no idea how, > but I'd love to be able to repeat it, if only for producing pathological > test data. I seem to recall that there is/was a specific case on windows whereby doing something similar would cause the file to be invisible in both explorer and 'dir', I can't replicate it here though. Mind I had an ICL DRS/NX machine that had a directory called ' ' that was a hard link to '.', I was never quite sure how that happened either. All sorts of fun ensued. /J\There's stuff above here
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