Re: [WinMac] Illegal characters in filenames

Jeroen Camstra(jeroenc[at]bigfoot.com)
Fri, 21 May 1999 16:04:44 -0500

On 21-5-99, at 13:25, Parker, Douglas wrote:
>User A has a Mac and a '95 workstation.
>User B has an NT workstation.
>User A saves a Mac file with a '/' in the filename on a network NT server.
>
>User A can't find the file on the network server on the '95WS. (I understand
>this part.)
>
>User B, it is claimed, can access the file on his NT workstation. (I don't
>get this.)

NT handles illegal characters quite nicely. You can see the filename
with all illegal characters replaced by a box/square/something. You
can play with such a file in the explorer (copy, move, delete, and
very important: rename), but most other programs, like Word, don't
understand the filename and will give you one of those cryptic error
messages. But if you rename the file, there's no more problems.
Ofcourse, Win 9x lacks this (and lots of other) nice features. [It's
hard to understand that one company can make two OSes with such a
similar name and such different behaviour]

greetings,

Jeroen

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