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Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:04:44 -0500
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Subject:	Re: Problems with strip on Windows 2000
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Gisle Vanem wrote:
>
> > Maybe it's the directory-name strip/rename doesn't handle. I mean,
> > it's highly unusual (in COMMAND/4DOS it's illegal) to name a directory
> > "\c++". I assume with the new LFN-API in W2K everything goes...
>
> A `+' is a valid file-name character when long file names are
> supported (it works for me on Windows 95), so I doubt that this is the
> reason.  But it can't hurt to try to rename the directory and see if
> that helps.

The only reason punctuation characters in filenames are not supported is
because they are used to separate commands on the command line. If however
they are
used under some applications control ( made, changed to ) , I don't think
there are any limitations.

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