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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:01:57 -0500
From: wayne <wayne AT reliant DOT immure DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Valid file-name characters
Message-ID: <20020723160156.A39594@reliant.immure.com>
Reply-To: Wayne Willcox <wayne AT reliant DOT immure DOT com>
References: <3D3999D5 DOT 2080904 AT cox DOT net> <91341174502 DOT 20020722110344 AT logos-m DOT ru> <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20020722174321 DOT 02b7a340 AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com> <3D3DBFF0 DOT 1070704 AT cox DOT net>
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In-Reply-To: <3D3DBFF0.1070704@cox.net>; from superbiskit@cox.net on Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 04:43:28PM -0400
X-Operating-System: FreeBSD reliant.immure.com 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

you can use an escaped \ I think that is true in all unixs at
least the modern ones.  

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 04:43:28PM -0400, David A. Cobb wrote:
> 
> 
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> 
> > At 16:18 2002-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote:
> >
> >> ...
> >>
> >> It only makes sense to me to escape characters that are a real 
> >> problem ( vs. a nuisance ) for one system or the other.  The ones I'm 
> >> sure of in Windoz are the colon and slashes.  Would Linux, for 
> >> example, allow a file with (shell-escapd) backslashes?  There are 
> >> others, but I haven't done the research yet.
> >
> >
> > See the attached GIF for Windows' reproach. If you don't care to do 
> > that, I'll transcribe:
> 
> I have plenty of reproaches for them too!  Thanks, I meant to conjure up 
> that box.
> I'm thinking of this as the _last_ step before sending a windowized 
> pathname to the OS -- encode any of the char's shown except the 
> PATH-SEP.  Actually, both slashes are verboten.  Coming back the other 
> way I'd be tempted to be more permissive and try decoding any %XY | X in 
> {0..9+A..F), Y in (0..9+A..F) but that may be an evil temptation. 
>  Reversing only what we ourselves do is far safer.
> 
> > Randall Schulz
> > Mountain View, CA USA
> >
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> David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
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