Better solution for allowing slash in filenames

[Mark Rose]

On Friday 18 January 2008 1:34:02 pm David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 18 January 2008, Mark Rose wrote:
> > A corner case that is encountered.
>
> Technically you cannot have encountered a corner case that uncommitted code
> will create for the first time :-)
>
> > I have ended up with files named like that when using wget, etc.,
>
> Named how exactly? Please explain. wget can certainly not create files with
> a '/' in the name...
>
> > though I can't say I've ever copy & pasted the
> > filename into a browser. Would this also not make typing the filename on
> > the command line difficult?
>
> <tab> always helps :)
> (but my kde3 konsole shows a square instead of the slash, for lack of
> finding the proper font character...) Anyway, one doesn't have to use this
> feature if he doesn't want to (the target user for having '/' in filenames
> is certainly not the command-line user :)
>
> > As a KDE and command line user, I know it would
> > confuse me when typing \/ (escaping with a backslash) and the file wasn't
> > referenced.
>
> !?!?!? There is no support for real slashes in filenames at the filesystem
> level. $ touch a\/b
> touch: cannot touch `a/b': No such file or directory

My humblest apologies. I must be misremembering. Must have been my old 
Macintosh days confusing me lol

Reconsidered, I think your proposal is a fantastic idea!

--Mark