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Re: Making safe file names

Date 2013-05-08 00:10 -0400
From Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject Re: Making safe file names
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On 05/07/2013 10:06 PM, Andrew Berg wrote:
> On 2013.05.07 20:28, Neil Hodgson wrote:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/74496
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nul_%28band%29
> I can indeed confirm that at least 'nul' cannot be used as a filename. However, I add an extension to the file names to identify them as caches.
>

Won't help.  NUL.txt is just as reserved as NUL is.  Extensions are 
ignored in this particular piece of historical nonsense.


-- 
DaveA

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Re: Making safe file names Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 19:51 -0500
  Re: Making safe file names Neil Hodgson <nhodgson@iinet.net.au> - 2013-05-08 11:28 +1000
    Re: Making safe file names Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-07 21:45 -0400
      Re: Making safe file names Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-07 22:21 -0400
    Re: Making safe file names Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 21:20 -0500
    Re: Making safe file names Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 21:06 -0500
    Re: Making safe file names Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-08 00:10 -0400
    Re: Making safe file names albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-05-28 13:44 +0000
      Re: Making safe file names Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-28 23:53 +1000
      Re: Making safe file names Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-28 16:03 +0000
  Re: Making safe file names Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-08 03:40 +0000
    Re: Making safe file names Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-08 00:13 -0400
      Re: Making safe file names Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-08 04:47 +0000
    Re: Making safe file names Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 23:49 -0500

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