On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:52:43 -0400
erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:

> > So what happens when you drawterm from a un*x box or access a VFAT 
> > partition?
> 
> nothing.  i'm running ken's fs, so from drawterm i have 
> 
>       ; echo > 'silly file'
>       ; lc silly*
>       'silly file'
>       ; cd /tmp
>       ; echo > 'silly file'
>       silly file: rc: can't open: 'silly file' create/wstat -- bad character 
> in file name
> 
> > Un*x seems a harder issue since no character is actually illegal, 
> 
> \0 is illegal.  well, not so much illegal as impossible to specify.
> (wide characters notwithstanding.)

I forgot, / is actually illegal. I'm almost (but not quite) certain that \0 is 
legal, and if I understand my emacs correctly you may be able to type it as 
ctrl-space. It displays as ^@ in emacs.


-- 
Ethan Grammatikidis
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer

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