Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Can not enter '/' in File Selections?

[Mario Klebsch <mario@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi!

Am 16.01.2005 um 15:57 schrieb Bob Paddock:

> The file selection dialogs in PCB do not allow the entry of the 
> forward-slash
> character '/'.  I always thought this was a bug, but in looking at the 
> code
> this character is deliberately not allowed to be entered.
>
> "   ... additionally ignore 'spaces' and 'slashes' during input ..."
>
> I was wondering why?  Is it a security risk?

'/' is (at least on UNIX systems) an illegal character for a filename. 
It is sthe systems path separator. Spaces are legach character in file 
names, allthough it is tough to correctly deal with these files in 
shell scripts.

73, Mario
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