FRAZIER%AFGLSC.SPAN@star.stanford.edu (04/22/88)
Perhaps the use of a pre-defined control character could be used to precede an illegal character in a filename. I am referring to a method which was used on the Tops-20 systems by DEC. For those of you who aren't familiar with 20's, a control-v preceding an illegal character told the OS how to handle the character. The C-V was non-printing in directory lists, but showed up in command lines and command histories. (Worked out rather nicely really.) No flames about Tops-20's being trash ok? It's a waste of disk space and CPU...