Reply to post: Re: Broken NFS

A 1970s magic trick: Take a card, any card, out of the deck and watch the IBM System/370 plunge into a death spiral

Randolf McKinley

Re: Broken NFS

Huh, yeah, I've got vague memories of fixing illegal Unix filenames with a byte editor too, but I can't remember what, or the context. It was something to do with creating a file from a program with characters in the name that made it inaccessible from the shell or another program (like '/' would be). You edited the current directory "." or the inode or something and replaced the illegal character in the name.

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