On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> > Years ago I knew a woman who wanted to use special characters on her mac > for file names which were perfectly legal with HFS, but NOT legal for NTFS. > When we moved her files to a Windows share, some of her files, though > visible, were inaccessible. (Why Windows even allowed the files to be > written without some kind of warning is another mystery). > There is a long and tragic history of OSs allowing applications and calls to create illegal file names . . . My first (but not last) was discovering that CP/M would let MBASIC create a file with a lower case name, even though CP/M was uppercase. I want to say that it displayed as uppercase in CP/M, too. I think I ended up with two files with the same name . . . The *ONLY* punctuation I allow in file names are dot and underbar, and this is enforced upon staff. There aren't many others, if any, that have meaning in *some* OS or another . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
