Linux to Windows

[Brent Blayney]

Did some testing on XP Pro here with WordPad.  I was able to successfully 
create and save the following files:

.testing.txt
.testing2,5=grwx.txt
.testing2;5;@=grwx.12345.txt
.testing2;5=@grwx.txt
.testing2;5=grwx.txt

However, I was *not* able to save the following file due to an invalid 
filename:

.testing2:5=grwx

So, it appears that the colon is the problem here.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Jablonski" <jjablonski at deluxestitcher.com>
To: "Tim Conway" <conway at us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Brent Blayney" <brent at fratcourses.com>; <rsync at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: Linux to Windows


> Hmmm.
>
> Oddly (?) enough, you can make a ".FILE" using a dos prompt (cmd), but not 
> using the win GUI. RMB->Create new->Text file on your desktop (or anywhere 
> using windows explorer) and try and create a file named ".dotfile". You 
> can't do it (in XP-pro anyways).
>
> -john
>
> Tim Conway wrote:
>
>>
>> In case cygwin was doing some filename mapping, I tried it in cmd:
>>
>> C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\t>edit .dotfile
>>
>> C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\t>del .dotfile
>>
>> C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\t>echo dot >.dotfile
>>
>>
>> 08/24/2005  08:55 AM    <DIR>          .
>> 08/24/2005  08:55 AM    <DIR>          ..
>> 08/24/2005  08:55 AM                 6 .dotfile
>
>
>