[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3072: MythGame: Apostrophe or single quote in filename breaks selection.

aaron memoryguy at gmail.com
Wed Nov 7 18:07:51 UTC 2007


On 11/7/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
>
> In Unix and NTFS, filenames may use any character other than forward
> slash ("/") and NULL.  (Though NTFS supports the characters:
>
> \ : * ? " < > |
>
> the Win32 subsystem prevents their use in filenames.)
>

I always thought it was funny that FAT allowed spaces in filenames,
but the DOS command line didn't... there were a couple of times I
created files in WordPerfect (or somesuch) that I later couldn't
delete. :)

-- 
aaron

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