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Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> The worst part of it is that I believe that there are methods that will |
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> allow you to make a file with such an illegal name (the API is not |
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> consistent). Of course the file then becomes hard to use or delete ;-). |
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30 years ago I worked with a stream editor and paper tape. The editor |
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wouldn't read a line longer than 80 chars*, but it would happily output one. |
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I spent many happy hours with a unipunch blotting out characters until the |
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offending line was short enough. Paperless office? Yeah. |
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* I may have the wrong number here. |
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Rgds |
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Prof Punch. |
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