illegal characters in file names

Chris Howe mrmessiah at gmail.com
Tue Jul 3 05:04:10 CDT 2007


True. A friend of mine accidentally created a file called * in his home
directory on the first day of university and was afraid to delete it for
3 years.

On 7/1/07, David Laight <david at l8s.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:57:58AM +0200, J?r?me Gardou wrote:
> >
> > All I know is that wine shouldn't use * and ? , since it is used in
> wildcards
> > on both Unix and Windows !
>
> But they are not illegal in unix filenames.
> Only 2 byte values cannot be used, 0 and '/'.
>
>         David
>
> --
> David Laight: david at l8s.co.uk
>
>
>
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