Hello Paul Meathrel & everyone else,

on 16-Jan-2006 at 18:23 you (Paul Meathrel) wrote:

> I tried to create a VF which has a colon in it's name and I received a
> message stating "A folder name must not contain non-printable characters,
> ", *, ?, /, \, : and trailing dots". I've seen similar messages before
> when creating folders in windows, however I'm not sure why a colon would
> be a "non-printable characters". It's not a big problem but I'd just like
> to know, so  if anyone has the answer I'd be grateful!

The message folder (even if its a VF) is created in the filesystem. The
same restrictions for filenames/foldernames apply.

I often replace the colon with one of the middle dots. ALT+0183 = · for
example, and ALT+0149 = • - these can be used in filenames.

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