Windows file names: Forbidden characters

Joel Hammer jhammer2 at home.com
Thu Dec 20 06:56:08 GMT 2001


Thanks.
This is in reference to to the question of parsing output from smbclient.
Joel
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 09:36:03AM -0500, David Brodbeck wrote:
> >From Windows NT Help:
> 
> A filename can contain up to 255 characters, including spaces. But, it
> cannot contain any of the following characters: \ / : * ? " < > |
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel at HammersHome.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 9:01 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Windows file names: Forbidden characters
> 
> 
> Could someone tell me, or point me to documentation, about which, (if any!)
> characters are not allowed in windows file names?
> Thanks,
> Joel
> 
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