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Re: ProDOS filenames
- Subject: Re: ProDOS filenames
- From: David Wilson <david@uow.edu.au>
- Date: 8 Aug 2005 14:01:32 +1000
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of Wollongong
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bb065@chebucto.ns.ca (Simon D. Williams) writes:
>Just curious... why are there so many invalid characters for prodos file
>names? It seems to me that "/" is the only one that really _needs_ to be
>disallowed...
Other characters that would have needed to be disallowed would be ? and =
(given that Apple programs like FILER use them as wildcards).
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David Wilson School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia