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IIRC, windows has a dialog that shows their full list of disallowed characters if you try to use one of them ... so try to make a file with (eg) "\" in the name
by finnh 10y ago
IIRC, windows has a dialog that shows their full list of disallowed characters if you try to use one of them ... so try to make a file with (eg) "\" in the name and see what the dialog says.
disclaimer: i'm remembering something from the Windows 2003 era, so YMMV.
- thoth 10y agoIt's still there, as a balloon popup that says a file name can't contain the following characters: \/:*?"<>|
- vkou 10y agoAs of Windows 7, if you create the file, or folder via raw API calls (Say, from the text editor built into FAR Manager), it's possible to work around this restriction. You can also create folders called "", or " ". Surprisingly enough, FAR will deal with this 'somewhat' gracefully, but unsurprisingly, Windows Explorer will completely break.