On 2001-05-06 23:15 +0200, Jonas Jensen wrote:
> Did you test it? On my Windows machine I have a file named [];,= on my
> desktop right now, it causes no problems at all. When you rename a file to
> an illegal name in Explorer, you get the error message:
>
> A filename cannot contain any of the following characters:
> \ / : * ? " < > |
Under DOS, "[", "]", "=" and ";" are illegal.
C:\>echo >[
Erreur de cr�ation de fichier
C:\>echo >]
Erreur de cr�ation de fichier
C:\>echo >;
Erreur de cr�ation de fichier
C:\>echo >=
Erreur de cr�ation de fichier
"%" is legal
C:\>echo >%
C:\>
> > i also donot know why wget checks for illegal characters in dos rather in
> > windows i just retained what was there
>
> Sure, that's what I thought. I'd like to hear a reason from the wget gurus
> that wrote it in the first place. It would make sense to me to test for
> WINDOWS or DOS or CYGWIN.
Apparently, the set of illegal characters is not the same for
DOS and Windows.
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