Thanks for that, Mark. I was really after that 'neat' way of doing it but
now that you did all the research for me, I'd say that's also a neat way -
for me! :)
Staffan
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Mark Miesfeld <miesf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is a list from MSDN:
>
>
> - Use any character in the current code page for a name, including
> Unicode characters, except characters in the range of zero (0) through 31,
> or any character that the file system does not allow. A name can contain
> characters in the extended character set (128–255). However, it cannot
> contain the following reserved characters:
>
> < > : " / \ | ? *
>
> Which brings up a point I meant to add when I said it depends on the
> operating system - it also depends on which file system in use. I believe
> that FAT has some reserved characters that NTFS does not.
>
> The < > : " /\ | ? * characters are the ones I usually think of as the
> illegal characters. But, 0 through 31 should be added to that. Using
> ooRexx, you are not going to get access to Unicode file names.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
>
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