Re: First UI component needing replacement.

[John Kodis <kodis jagunet com>]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:47:31AM +0200, Christian Rose wrote:

> On the other hand, "?" is used as a wildcard key on both Linux and
> Windows, and isn't a permitted file name character on either of them

> Tab isn't a valid filename character. Space is.

Not so, at least in Unix-land.  There are only *two* characters
(octets, actually) that are prohibited from Unix filenames: slash and
null.  Everything else -- spaces, tabs, new-lines, carriage returns,
escape sequences, random bits of ASCII art -- is a prefectly
acceptable filename.  Most people have the good taste to avoid most of
these characters (spaces included), but to the file system, they're
all just fine.

-- John Kodis.