On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, John Eldredge wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > How does Debian LINUX react if it encounters a filename starting > with a tilde character '~'? On the SCO UNIX system at work, a > MS-DOS program accessing the UNIX filesystem via NFS created > several temporary files which started with the tilde character >...... Just tried this and had no problems with it. Joe.