> is that an intention that acme does not recognize " (or "", not so sure > about '''chk' ) to be a name of a valid file? At least " and "" seems to me > to be a valid file name, but clicking on it with button 3 in acme doesn't > work --- file is not opened. Only explicit use of Get opens it.
They are very odd file names. Rather than pollute your plumbing rules, you can type something like New "" in acme and then execute it to open the file. Russ