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Re: ProDOS filenames
- Subject: Re: ProDOS filenames
- From: "Peter Watson" <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 10:43:07 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: BigPond Internet Services
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"David Wilson" <david@uow.edu.au> wrote in message
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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).
In the GS/OS world, you would probably have to avoid ":" as an alternate
pathname separator as well. (Blame the Mac world for that one.)
--
Peter Watson
-- Write to MSDOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
-- Impossible! ;-)