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Subject:getting a handle on illegal filenames From:Mark I Halpern <Mark_Halpern -at- SMTPGATE -dot- TESSERACT -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:15:13 PST
Colleagues,
I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to address this question to a
Tech Writers' discussion group, but at least it's no more
inappropriate than many I've seen, so I'll risk getting my wrist
slapped.
I have somehow managed to create, using Windows, some illegal file
names -- the File Manager can't display the illegal character(s) in
them, so they appear with one or more blanks when I list the directory
containing them. But I can't do anything with them -- not delete them,
rename them, or anything else, since Windows cannot even find them.
I recall reading somewhere how one deletes or somehow gets control
of such misnamed files, but cannot remember what the magic is, or
where I found it. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks,
