Message-ID: <388B42BA.91F6F397@connection.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:04:44 -0500 From: sam X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Problems with strip on Windows 2000 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.13.20.183 X-Trace: 23 Jan 2000 13:02:03 -0500, 216.13.20.183 Lines: 20 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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.