What to do about filenames legal in Linux but illegal in Windows?

Saulius Krasuckas saulius2 at ar.fi.lt
Tue Apr 22 00:57:39 CDT 2008


* On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Dan Kegel wrote:
> 
> (I believe that in both Windows and Wine, directory listings
> will show these illegal chars, but attempts to open the files will 
> fail.)
  ...
> I looked around a bit today for a way to open such files in
> Windows, and failed miserably 
  ...
> Anyone know of a way on real Windows to do this?

For a files that were at least "undeletable" I remember I have been using 
a feature of Total Commander to switch format of files displayed to a 
Short/Long form.  Not all files give up for me this way, but half of them 
did, though.



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