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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 26 06:27:44 -0700
2005 -------
Most restrictive platform is windows due to its DOS heritage. So let's start
there:
Reserved names are:
COM1 ... COM9 (with or without suffix)
LPT1 ... LPT9 (with or without suffix)
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL
Forbidden ASCII characters are
0 ... 31 (\,/,:,*,?,",<,>,| ...)
Rules
- no . as first letter
- not more than one .
- no . as last letter
Sparc and linux:
Are not restrictive at all. Almost any character and filename can be used, if
necessary by "escaping" them. /dev/nul is a bad place to store files. However,
there may be constraints set by the filesystem used. Using ASCII 0 ... 31 is
always a bad idea, we might want to prohibit that.
All OSes:
- maximum filename length is 255 chars
There is a document on the net that might give additional insight:
http://www.portfoliofaq/pfaq/FAQ00352.htm. The document takes into account that
there might be problems with network shares as well regarding the characters
!+{}&[].
Issues to consider:
- not all characters can be entered into our filesave-dialog (escaping is not
possible)
- BASIC has no means to protect the user against doing strange things. It allows
any character BASIC knows about by building filenames using CHR$(ASCII DEC
CHAR). Same for any other programming language.
- we must pay attention to situations where a filename gets converted to
something else (in the past we converted names like "a%20b" to "a b" which
turned the entries in the picklist invalid). I don't know if this still applies.
- probably not all characters can be displayed in our file-open dialog (tab,
vertical tab etc.) but we should leave that aside for now. Please add it to the
spec anyway.
JSK->MMP: Is this good enough for you to work with or do you need more info?
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