Re: Perl stricter than my OS regarding file/dir names

what OS? and why would you want a newline (or any other low ascii char) in a directory name?

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Re^2: Perl stricter than my OS regarding file/dir names by jffry (Hermit) on Feb 15, 2006 at 20:15 UTC
If I'm writing a test of the OS's file system, I should use all documented legal characters to create directories & files as part of that test. Due to NDA, I don't feel comfortable saying which UNIX flavor I'm dealing with.	[reply]