On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:14 AM, AJ ONeal <[email protected]> wrote: > 2. windows doesn't like '\\' but will handle '*', '?', '`', etc) > 5. *, ?, ', ", `, !, #, all other characters are all valid bytes for a > filename
If you want trouble-free support from Windows, you'll want to make sure strip these characters from filenames: / \ * : ? < > " | \0 While Windows (NTFS) really does support most of those, the shell (Explorer) and most command-line tools don't usually play along. Moving, copying, deleting, and renaming files with some of those characters will be pretty hard unless you use specific tools with a specific form of filename (usually the \\?\ prefix). Nick -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
