Dan@sri-unix (06/20/82)
Date: 8 Jun 1982 11:11:25 EDT (Tuesday) The C shell solves this problem, as it does so many others; the "set noclobber" option will save you. The second example: cat fourteen_character_filename > fourteen_character_filename.f seems to indicate that the developers of UNIX ignored Brian Kernighan's dictum that "the system should not force you to count characters". If UNIX rejected long filenames entirely, I would never have to count to fourteen--at worst I would get an error message, instead of a disaster. One of those many little things...