David writes:
> A POSIX filaname can have ANY character in it, including punctuation,
> backspaces, ampersands, 7Fx, FFx, heck, the filename can also be ZERO chars
> in length.
 
Sorry, a "Posix" filename can ONLY have A-Z,a-z,0-9,'_','-', and '.' characters
in it I believe. A "Unix" filename *can* have any character in the name. This
difference comes as a rude shock the first time you want to store, say, DOS
filenames (often containing '$' and '~' characters), on a Posix system!
 
G.