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Article #1655Re: AREXX technical question
From: Colin Plumb
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1989 22:39
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1989 22:39
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In article <280@seti.inria.fr> rouaix@inria.inria.fr (Francois Rouaix) writes: > (Auxiliary question: do we have a character that may *never* appear > in an amigados filename ?) There is exactly one character, the forward slash. It has a special meaning to pathnames, so is never part of a file name. Colons seem to be treated as ordinary characters after the first (type funny:file chokes, but type df0:funny:file works), and you need to go all the way down to building your own packets to get an ASCII null '\0', but 255 out of the 256 possible 8-bit bytes can appear in the FileInfoBlock returned by Examine() without having to use a disk editor. -- -Colin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!rose!ccplumb From: ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AREXX technical question Keywords: interface error Message-ID: <17221@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 13 Oct 89 22:39:27 GMT References: <280@seti.inria.fr> Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu Reply-To: ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 13