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[Martin Gregorie]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:02:07 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

> On 2010-10-15, Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au>
> wrote:
> 
>> In the Unix world, which includes OS X, text tools tend to have
>> difficulty with tabs. Or try naming a file with a newline or carriage
>> return in the file name, or a NULL byte.
> 
> How do you create a file with a name that contains a NULL byte?

Use a language or program that doesn't use null-terminated strings. 

Its quite easy in many BASICs, which often delimit strings by preceeding 
it with a with a byte count, and you hit Ctrl-SPACE by accident....


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