Re: Defining legal character set for folder/file names
From: Vinod Gupta (vrak58_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/02/04
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Date: 1 Oct 2004 22:47:37 -0700
Essentially, what you are saying is "No way" with native tools in XP.
Vinod
"David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message news:<ul$i1D8pEHA.3800@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl>...
> If you use posix tools you can create unix names. But posix was removed
> in XP leaving only Windows (OS/2 was removed in Win 2000). Windows can't
> use illegal windows filenames. NT itself is agnostic. So you need to
> find a program that will as windows programs won't. This also means
> windows program's can't use an windows illegal named file.
>
> This means it needs to be a NT native program (like chkdsk on startup),
> which is not documented but has been reversed engineered.
>
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> "Vinod Gupta" <vrak58@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:30b8645c.0410010445.383bd9b9@posting.google.com...
> > Is there any way to redefine legal character-set for naming folder or
> > file names? In our enterprise, many of our Windows machines are used
> > in Unix environment. It will be desirable to define a global
> > charater-set that excludes characters like Space, Tab, $ etc.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vinod
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