From: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@...>
Date: 2005-04-22T09:40:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Facets 0.6.3

On 4/21/05, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/20/05, Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It used to be, way back when, that 2 (ascii) chars were disallowed in
> > unix filesystem names; "/" and NUL.  Everything else was legal (if
> > "weird").
> 
> Legal doesn't mean it's a good idea.

Of course not.  That's not what I was asserting; I was simply replying
to another poster who wrote:

> AFAIK, all kinds of brackets, i.e. (),[] and {} are fine on unixish file systems, as are "+", "-", ",", "." and ";" .

Which in fact is correct.

Not that it matters, but I'm (also) against naming files using a
meta-char (i.e. "?")  in arguably the most ubiquitous shells in use
today.