Adding a char inside path string

Tim Williams tim at tdw.net
Thu Aug 17 04:47:12 EDT 2006


On 17/08/06, Sybren Stuvel <sybrenUSE at yourthirdtower.com.imagination> wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber enlightened us with:
> >       What happens when you get a pathname that looks like:
> >
> > \\who\cares\common.exe\program.exe
>
> Is that possible on Windows? At one point, I named a directory
> "www.something.com" and then it wouldn't open, because it was an
> invalid .COM file...

It is possible on XP.   I just created this structure

C:\Documents and Settings\TW\Desktop\test\test.com\test.exe\test
space\data\data.txt

:)



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