> in order to avoid having to worry about special characters
> they are NUL-terminated)

Would this be a possible alternative - newline terminated (convert any
newlines embedded in filenames to the 3 chars '%0A', and leave it as an
exercise to the reader to de-convert them.)

Line formatted ASCII files are really nice - worth pissing on embedded
newlines in paths to obtain.

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