Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:12:20 -0500 From: Wayne Willcox To: Randall R Schulz Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Valid file-name characters Message-ID: <20020723171220.A40264@reliant.immure.com> Reply-To: Wayne Willcox References: <3D3DBFF0.1070704@cox.net> <3D3999D5.2080904@cox.net> <91341174502.20020722110344@logos-m.ru> <5.1.0.14.2.20020722174321.02b7a340@pop3.cris.com> <3D3DBFF0.1070704@cox.net> <20020723160156.A39594@reliant.immure.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020723151623.046d86e8@pop3.cris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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@reliant.immure.com I will not eat them Sam I Am!! A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion. -- Chinese proverb -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/