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

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From: Raymond S. Brand
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 1991 15:29

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In article <sutela.663335373@polaris>, sutela@polaris.utu.fi (Kari Sutela) writes:
> 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

[...]

> might be refusing these filenames. What does the DOS say about the
> characters in a filename (or is it the filesystem)?

The filesystem is the thing that determines what characters are legal in a
filename. Joe is correct, 0x00 is the only character garanteed not to be
part of a filename. You should also note that it is the filesystem that
determines what the path component separator is, so it might not be "/"
for some filesystems.

> Kari Sutela	sutela@polaris.utu.fi

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