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psyjax:
Ahhh...

Ok ok, this is not the right place for this, usualy I would be redirected to windowsBBS. But you guys know me, so help me out if you got an answer to this.

Basically, some friends came down to party for Halloween, and they are PC (that is Windows PC) users. I took a bunch of pictures with my digital cammera and am burning them a CD.

Im writting titles to all the images and they contain funny captions and stuff. I want to make sure that I don't violate any of those dumb ass forbidden character rules. I was wondering if there were such prohibitions with XP? Shit... what are the forbiden characters period?

When I use windows I just stick to plain characters and underscores.

[ November 02, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax v6.9 /Dave ]

Calum:
you mean what can't you use in a filename in windows? well, your files must all end with extensions for a start (from what i remember, it's all mime types, not extensions with a mac), and they must all be less than 12q8 (or is it 112?) characters, although i think it's less than that for a CD anyway.

i think (and i could check this except i am not using windows right now! (hooray!)) that the characters you cannot use are \ ? ! " * $ | + and maybe one or two others (and / is allowed!). is anybody using windows reading this? if you are, you can find this out by trying to rename a file to ! and you will get a helpful dialogue telling you all the forbidden characters. oh yes, and the file won't be renamed either, so no need to worry about that.

flap:
They don't have to have extensions.

Calum:
why not? it's windows isn't it?

flap:
Files under windows don't have to have extensions.

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