>From: tmm@mcci.com (Terry Moore)
>Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 15:42:45 -0500 (EST)

>The simple change (which will never happen) is to simply forbid
>all characters for which isprint() is not true from appearing in
>file specs.  This is permitted by Posix, if I recall, and would
>not break any other than the most obscure (and non-portable)
>applications.  

A popular CAD tool in use at Analog, which shall remain nameless,
occasionally creates garbage files with completely random names.  I
usually use Emacs' dired-mode to get rid of them; AFAIK "rm -i *" is
the only alternative.  What a PITA.
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