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From: | "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com> |
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Subject: | Re: Weird Characters in Filenames |
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Date: | Fri, 03 Dec 1999 23:12:00 GMT |
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"Ben Davis" <ben AT vjpoole DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote: > I'm writing a DO$ game You include a dollar sign in DOS, implying that your game won't run on free Lineo DR DOS. Is that true? http://www.lineo.com/ > and level editor in DJGPP and Allegro. Being DO$, I am > restricting myself to DO$ 8.3 filenames. You can choose > your own filenames in the editor (obviously). When the > user types in a filename, I need to filter out certain > characters, for example ' ' (space), '.' (dot), '\' (backslash), > '*' (asterisk) and '?' (question mark), because they have > special meanings. I've xposted this to comp.os.msdos.programmer; they may know more about this. > There are a lot of characters that I'm not sure about. > I wondered if someone could tell me _exactly_ which > characters I should allow the user to type into filenames. I just tested all ASCII characters from 33 to 126 except the letters and digits [0-9A-Za-z]. I tried to rename a small file (using the ren command of the shell Micro$oft Command) to each character. M$ Windows Explorer says a long filename cannot contain \/:*?"<>| Known OK (checked in M$ Command, and the name appears as a DOS name): !#$%&'()@^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}~ OK in LFN only (checked in M$ Command, and the name is _~1): +.[] Not accepted by M$ Command as a filename: "*,/:;<=>?\| > Another thing: do I need to allow for accented letters? They're legal in DOS, but Micro$oft Windows Explorer users cannot move or remove any file named with an above-ASCII (128-255) character. -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ My .sig is too long to include in an e-mail or NG message. Go to http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html to see it.
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