On Sun, 6 May 2001, T. Bharath wrote:
> May be i may have missed some but the ones there are also illegal( some under
> NTFS)
> I had got the list . " / \ [ ] : ; = , from msdn and the rest i found when i
> was trying to download a dynamic page
A method for checking for illegal characters (and reserved filenames
such as PRN) has already been worked out. Please see the source for
the DJGPP port of GNU tar and the DJGPP program DJTAR. A similar
algorithm is in INFO-ZIP's DJGPP port of unzip. You may also see the
DJGPP patch for wget1.6 that I submitted to the list, which uses a
modified version of the code from DJGPP port of tar. There are now
fairly standard ways of handling illegal characters and names, making
standard substitutions. The patch I submitted is number 113 on the
wget-patches list. Since this is not yet available on the web you can
write to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to get a copy.
Doug
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