On 2003-09-23, 19:42 GMT, James Frye wrote: > Guess we must have learned *nix from different sources, then. IIRC - it > has been a couple of decades - not using characters such as <, >, &, or > space was one of the basic "Intro to Unix" things. Though as you learn > more (or make more mistakes), you learn that if you try really hard, you > actually can put most or all of them in names. You can, I think, even put > quotes in names, and make your life really interesting :-)
Or you can really put colon in the filename of the configuration file for your program and then make life _really interesting_ for your users. If you cannot imagine, that somebody would do something so stupid, read dot-qmail(5). Sorry, this is really OT (as whole this thread), but it took me three hours (between midnight and three o'clock a.m. :-) to find it. Since then I wouldn't touch that program for anything (not that I would ever use it, but maintainer of my domain likes it). Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
