Mike, I agree that the problem is not generated by LFT but it has a tremendous effect on LFT when you restore a backup. The zip program I use is 7-zip. Don't know if it was installed as a part of Win 8 or a factory installed program by the computer maker. Windows is perfectly happy with the dash as you point out but Legacy sure doesn’t like it when a file name gets changed and in this case the zip/unzip does change the file name. Bobby
> -----Original Message----- > From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of MikeFry > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Hyphen versus Dash in file names > > On 25 Feb 2016 4:43 AM, Bobby Johnson wrote: > > > Yep, I have been chipping away at it. May take a while. > My main > > objective was to let people know that some and maybe all > of the > > extended ascii characters will not go through a zip/unzip > operation in tact. > > I would have thought that this was a Windows restriction > and not a Legacy problem. Windows has a list of disallows > characters and your Alt-0150 is not on that list. It does say > that not all filename strings are valid on all file systems. This > becomes important when moving files between, say, > Windows and a Mac. > > This paragraph might cast some light (from > <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en- > us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx > ?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396>) > > Use any character in the current code page for a name, > including Unicode characters and characters in the extended > character set (128–255), except for the following: > > The following reserved characters: > < (less than) > > (greater than) > : (colon) > " (double quote) > / (forward slash) > \ (backslash) > | (vertical bar or pipe) > ? (question mark) > * (asterisk) > > Your Alt-0150 might only be really valid on a pure Unicode > system. > > > One question though: What software did you use for the > ZIP/UNZIP? Software that expects 'normal' filenames might > have problems with 'exotic' characters. > > -- > Regards, > Mike Fry (Jhb) > > _______________________________________________ > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_l > egacyusers.com _______________________________________________ LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com
