On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:04:42 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
>
>>It's worse than that.   One may safely use those characters that are called
>>in manuals Alphabetic, Numeric, or Special.  They're enumerated. all others
>>are considered Invalid.  Alphabetic does *not* include lower case.
>
>I doubt this is still correct information. After all, even z/OS base 
>components issue WTOs in mixed case. ZFS is one that comes to my mind, and I'm 
>pretty sure there are more but I can't name them without looking up.
>
What about WTOR?  You mention ZFS (ITYM zFS; they're not the same.)
and UNIX filesystems are case-sensitive.  And I believe any NFS is
required to have an all-majuscule handle, useful for little besides
operator commands.

And I still wonder about those pesky half-Katakana or half-Cyrillic
terminals.

-- gil

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