Making safe file names
Dave Angel
davea at davea.name
Wed May 8 00:10:13 EDT 2013
On 05/07/2013 10:06 PM, Andrew Berg wrote:
> On 2013.05.07 20:28, Neil Hodgson wrote:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/74496
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nul_%28band%29
> I can indeed confirm that at least 'nul' cannot be used as a filename. However, I add an extension to the file names to identify them as caches.
>
Won't help. NUL.txt is just as reserved as NUL is. Extensions are
ignored in this particular piece of historical nonsense.
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DaveA
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