>HOWEVER, in the end I decided that this doesn't make any difference. The
>"(deleted)" at the end is more human-readable, and as the name is really
>only for readability anyway.
What about putting a null byte between the real name and the "(deleted)"?
This does not mess up terminals, is unique (since there must'n be a '\0'
in a file name), and very easy to parse from C.
-- Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet. The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.