Re: VFAT: Can't create file named 'aux.h'?

[H. Peter Anvin]

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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