control character file names

[Noah]

> Sorry for being to briefly.
> 
> 1.
> 
> The Midnight Commander is a curses based file manager that might
> be a workaround for the problem you can't solve using Emacs at
> the moment. It can be installed via ports or (more simple) from
> packages using "pkg_add -r mc". The command to run it is "mc".
> 
> 
> 
> 2.
> 
> PF6 (or F6) refers to the programmable function key number 6
> which has the function to move or rename files (in the Midnight
> Commander).
> 
> By the way, for deleting a directory, PF8 (or F8) - Delete - can
> be useful. I'm not sure if the MC can be troubled by control
> characters in filenames, but up to this point, I found nothing
> the MC couldn't delete anyway. :-)
> 
> 
> 
> I hope I didn't explain too stupidly, I don't want to sound
> impolite. Of course I cannot assume anyone to know what a
> Midnight Commander is or what PF keys (IBM and robotron
> terminology) are...
> 
> 
> 
> 

cool - that worked.  thanks for the verbosity :)