From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3accd44abeec75ee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fluffy_pop@dsuper.net Subject: Re: DOS/Win95 file names Date: 1999/06/12 Message-ID: <3764ebe8.111280800@news.dsuper.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 488928279 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <375fd4b4.608956077@news.dsuper.net> X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: asc9-addr-147.dsuper.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: 12 Jun 1999 20:08:11 -0400, delphi.dsuper.net Organization: via Internet Direct MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-06-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 11:36:49 +0200, Mario Klebsch wrote: >Why to you want to biuld in the problems of tomorrow today? The OS knows >quit well, which filenames to accept and surely does have some rules, >what to do, when the filenames do not satisfy their constraints. > >I far to often have had programs, that did this kind of checking, >and I hated them all, when I was using them an a newer system, where >the original contraints were gone. Those programs can make your live >like hell. :-( > >73, Mario I'm a student and I'm trying stuff to get better aquainted with the DOS/Windows interactions, character representation in general, in addition to simply doing what the teacher is asking. He was not very precise in his instuctions for the name validation, and when I asked him he said he didn't find it important. This is not a program that anyone is ever going to use, even not I. It's an experiment. Marc -- What I really am is "fluffy", no "_dong", no "_puff", no "_woo", no nothing, just plain fluffy.