Re: Making a string, file-safe (file-encode??)



In article <48580cd6$0$12749$7836cce5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
? is not invalid on all system, linux handles it perfectly. The
characters that are invalid are system specific, and some systems don't
have limitations at all.

Offhand, I can't recall any system that doesn't have some limitations on
characters that can be used in filenames. What systems are you thinking
of?

In particular, every system I recall that supports directories and
allows access of files by a full path name prohibits the use of the path
separator in filenames.


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--Tim Smith
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