From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject: Re: Problems with strip on Windows 2000
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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 18:28:47 GMT
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On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:04:44 -0500, sam <samirw AT connection DOT com> wrote:

>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.

For example, the + sign has special meaning in the copy command.
Try quoting your filenames and see what doesn't blow up.

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