Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:07:07 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: VFAT: Can't create file named 'aux.h'? |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>>NAK. How much more names will you be going to mangle because of FAT >>>character restrictions? (< and > are one of the chars not allowed in FAT.) >> >>Uhm... that's what VFAT *does*... >> > > Hm. How do I check? Under a DOS shell, > > echo bla >"illegal>name" > > won't work, and creating a new empty dummy text file within Windows > Explorer with this illegal>name won't work either. > (http://jengelh.hopto.org/f/illegal_filename.jpg) > Did I miss some magic WINAPI function that does allow it implicitly > by mangling the name?
You're confusing characters which aren't legal *VFAT* names which those which aren't legal *FAT* (8.3) names.
> is illegal in VFAT as well.
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