Michael writes:

> The perfect solution would be for HP's implimentation of POSIX to allow all
> these special characters :-)

Although I agree with the idea behind the above, I must point out:

   MPE/iX supports the *POSIX* specification of valid filename
   characters.  *POSIX* doesn't allow very many special characters,
   although most *UNIX* implementations do!

Still, technicalities (and defense of MPE's POSIX implementation) aside,
I've been lobbying for MPE to allow many more special characters
in filenames (indeed, all but null).

However, Jeff Vance of HP has asked some hard questions about this...
perhaps we can get him to lead a discussion on it?  ([log in to unmask])
E.g., the interaction between CI commands and newly allowed
characters ... if "@" is allowed, how does the CI interpret:
   :purge ./foo@
does it purge the file "foo@", or all files beginning with "foo"?

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