[X-Newbies] Migration Assistant

[Raoul Armfield]

> 
> They're not the actual names - just some I dreamt up .  They were
> playing Mars from Holst's Planets while I was writing  :-)
> 
I see.

> A point does arise.  is it possible to use characters in account names? 
> Thus Mars might become M at rs or perhaps M at rs25 or even $M at rs25.
> 

I am not sure about all non-alpha numeric characters but at least some 
would not be usable I am thinking of characters like wildcards (*,?) or 
characters like the @ symbol.  Since in Unix-type OSes (such as BSD) 
these characters have special significance.


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Raoul Armfield
rarmfield at amnh dot org