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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:07:07 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
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Subject: Re: VFAT: Can't create file named 'aux.h'?
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>>NAK. How much more names will you be going to mangle because of FAT
>>>character restrictions? (< and > are one of the chars not allowed in FAT.)
>>
>>Uhm... that's what VFAT *does*...
>>
> 
> Hm. How do I check? Under a DOS shell,
> 
> 	echo bla >"illegal>name"
> 
> won't work, and creating a new empty dummy text file within Windows 
> Explorer with this illegal>name won't work either.
> (http://jengelh.hopto.org/f/illegal_filename.jpg)
> Did I miss some magic WINAPI function that does allow it implicitly
> by mangling the name?

You're confusing characters which aren't legal *VFAT* names which those 
which aren't legal *FAT* (8.3) names.

 > is illegal in VFAT as well.

	-hpa
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