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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!usc!rpi!utcsri!devnull
  2. Newsgroups: alt.hackers
  3. From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
  4. Subject: Re: First Post
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug16.164148.15362@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
  6. References: <1992Aug14.035734.7594@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1992Aug14.090928.2677@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <2crY03GO5e4p00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <1992Aug16.200713.4800@eng.umd.edu>
  7. Date: 16 Aug 92 20:41:48 GMT
  8. Approved: once@upon.a.time
  9. Lines: 8
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  11. russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
  12. >ObAnnoyingQuestion: Which of these works when the strange character in
  13. >the name is '/'?
  14.  
  15. Only fsdb.  Files with slashes in a component of their name in unix are big
  16. no-nos.  You must have created this by using defective low-level software.
  17. Could I guess NFS from a mac through a gatorbox?  I recommend you use the mac
  18. to delete/rename the file; it's the easiest way.
  19.