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Re: Using a string as filepath
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Re: Using a string as filepath


  • Subject: Re: Using a string as filepath
  • From: Scott Ribe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:10:03 -0700
  • Thread-topic: Using a string as filepath

> To make things worse, there's no way to query a filesystem and ask it
> what characters it doesn't like (as far as I know). Worse yet, you
> can't even reliably query a filesystem and find out what kind of
> filesystem it actually *is*.

Which, just for the purposes of illustration, can show up in the Finder in
really ugly ways when copying from HFS to FAT. Users get horrible error
messages telling them a filename is illegal, with no information on what
exactly is required to fix the name.


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Scott Ribe
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http://www.killerbytes.com/
(303) 722-0567 voice


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