> -----Original Message-----
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> Leaving the asterisk is technically possible in all major platforms.
> It's a valid character in a filename. But I agree with not doing that.
> Munging causes some small issues, but not munging would be worse.
AFAIK, the asterisk is not a valid character in a Windows filename (at least,
not in NTFS, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't legal in the various FAT-derived
filesystems either). You *can* use it in unix or unix-derived systems, but it
has to be escaped, and it's annoying to deal with.
jim
