From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 12:22:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gtei2.bellatlantic.net (gtei2.bellatlantic.net [199.45.40.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7740C37B6A7 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:22:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellatlantic.net (adsl-141-155-151-7.nyc.adsl.bellatlantic.net [141.155.151.7]) by gtei2.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA12893 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:22:29 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A6C9682.8BFEA851@bellatlantic.net> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:22:26 -0500 From: Bill Restemeyer Reply-To: restemey@bellatlantic.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: question about file/directory names Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am developing a system in Perl that runs on FreeBSD which lets users create files and directories. I need to know which characters are acceptable in filenames and directory names and which are not. Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bill Restemeyer www.teachtools.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message