[OT] Paul de Vrieze wrote:
The worst part of it is that I believe that there are methods that will allow you to make a file with such an illegal name (the API is not consistent). Of course the file then becomes hard to use or delete ;-).
30 years ago I worked with a stream editor and paper tape. The editor wouldn't read a line longer than 80 chars*, but it would happily output one. I spent many happy hours with a unipunch blotting out characters until the offending line was short enough. Paperless office? Yeah.
* I may have the wrong number here. [/OT] -- Rgds Prof Punch. -- [email protected] mailing list
