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On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 18:20:38 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards
<invalid@invalid.invalid> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> On 2012-11-05, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 17:39:35 +1100, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
> >
> >> 
> >> It's nothing to do with operating system. File names are names, and
> >> spaces in them are seldom worth the hassle unless you manipulate those
> >> files solely using a GUI.
> >>
> > 	At least spaces are visible.
> >
> > 	CP/V would accept non-printable characters in file names... Things
> > like BEL were valid -- but figure out where in the name the BEL
> > character was when listing the directory contents <G>
> 
> Don't most OSes allow non-printing characters in filenames?  VMS and
> Unix always have.  AFAIK, there are only two characters that can't
> appear in a Unix filename: '\x00' and '/'.

	But can you /enter/ them with common keystrokes on a plain text
terminal (it's been 35 years, so I don't recall the exact key used for
the BEL on CP/V -- my mind thinks <ctrl-f> was used)... No cut&paste
from "character map", no <alt>-3digitsequence...
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