File Name Format

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-05-08, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote:
> In <134147e2gsg6v35 at corp.supernews.com>, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> On 2007-05-08, Anand <anand.pasoria at in.bosch.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> How do I convert programmatically the file names from WIN32 to UNIX format?
>> 
>> You don't need to.  AFAIK, all legal WIN32 filenames are legal
>> UNIX file names.
>
> Doesn't this depend more on the file system than the operating system?

Sort of.  AFAIK, no matter which "Windows" filesystem you pick,
the set of allowed filenames are legal for all of the common
"Unix" filesystems (EXT3, XFS, Reiser, etc.).

However, the OP hasn't offered any details about what it is
he's actually wanting to do, so this is all just idle
speculation...

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