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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