Re: Defining legal character set for folder/file names
From: David Candy (david_at_mvps.org)
Date: 10/02/04
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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 16:10:49 +1000
That correct.
-- ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.uscricket.com "Vinod Gupta" <vrak58@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:30b8645c.0410012147.5f0185c@posting.google.com... > 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. >> >> >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> http://www.uscricket.com >> "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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