Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!hsdndev!rutgers!cbmvax!rsbx From: rsbx@cbmvax.commodore.com (Raymond S. Brand) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Filename characters (was Re: Parsing filenames with blanks inside Rexx Message-ID: <17229@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 8 Jan 91 15:29:58 GMT References: <1400@tardis.Tymnet.COM> <1406@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, West Chester, PA Lines: 28 In article , sutela@polaris.utu.fi (Kari Sutela) writes: > BTW, thanks for the program. Always nice to see some example rexx-source. > > jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes: > > >The only character guaranteed not to be part of any filename is '00'x. > > Is this true? For a project of mine I have recently made some tests and [...] > might be refusing these filenames. What does the DOS say about the > characters in a filename (or is it the filesystem)? The filesystem is the thing that determines what characters are legal in a filename. Joe is correct, 0x00 is the only character garanteed not to be part of a filename. You should also note that it is the filesystem that determines what the path component separator is, so it might not be "/" for some filesystems. > Kari Sutela sutela@polaris.utu.fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Raymond S. Brand rsbx@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore-Amiga Engineering ...!uunet!cbmvax!rsbx 1200 Wilson Drive (215)-431-9100 West Chester PA 19380 "Looking" ------------------------------------------------------------------------