From B.Rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk  Fri Dec  5 11:04:11 2003
From: B.Rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk (Barry Rowlingson)
Date: Fri Dec  5 11:03:04 2003
Subject: [Rd] R 1.8.1 ./configure with "," in working directory (PR#5536)
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wolfram@fischer-zim.ch wrote:

> REMARK
> As I have seen, ``,'' is used as separator for the sed statements in
> config.status. Would it be possible to use instead a character which
> cannot be used in a pathname, e.g. ``;''?
> 

  What makes you think ';' cant be used in a pathname?

$ mkdir 'foo;bar'
$ ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x    2 rowlings baz          4096 Dec  5 10:01 foo;bar

I think the only (printable ascii) character not allowed in Unix 
pathnames is '/'.

Barry


[Rd] R 1.8.1 ./configure with "," in working directory (PR#5536)
Barry Rowlingson