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[Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 06:48:52PM +0100, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 10:21:21AM -0700, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > By the way, are we doing anything about special file names (mostly a
> > Windows issue)? These can be problematic even with extensions added.
> > What if I tried to create a part named PRN?
> 
> Or: AUX, CON, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, NUL, CLOCK$
> 
> and could be others I do not recall now...
> 
> No comment ...
> 

Here there is a useful list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Reserved_characters_and_words

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Marco Ciampa

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