Filename characters (was Re: Parsing filenames with blanks inside Rexx

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From: Kari Sutela
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 1991 11:49

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BTW, thanks for the program. Always nice to see some example rexx-source.

jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:

>The only character guaranteed not to be part of any filename is '00'x.

Is this true? For a project of mine I have recently made some tests and
I think there are other characters which aren't allowed in filenames (the
DOS manual by Bantam is a bit vague about this). My tests were quite simple;
basically I just `echo'ed some strings and tried to redirect the output to
a file.

Some tests which `failed' were:

	echo >"An*e[33mEscapeInAFilename" AString
	echo >"ANewline*nInAFilename" AString

Both gave the error "Unable to open redirection file". I use WShell, so it
might be refusing these filenames. What does the DOS say about the
characters in a filename (or is it the filesystem)?
-- 
Kari Sutela	sutela@polaris.utu.fi

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