somerandomhash Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 (edited) Following on from http://ketarin.canneverbe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=93 I thought it would be helpful to post some handy info regarding 8.3 file names (as it will probably help others) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename # Upper case letters A–Z (see lower case letters below) you CAN use them # Numbers 0–9 # Space (though trailing spaces in either the base name or the extension are considered to be padding and not a part of the filename, also filenames with spaces in them could not be used on the DOS command line because it lacked a suitable escaping system) # ! # $ % & ' ( ) - @ ^ _ ` { } ~ # (FAT-32 only) + , . ; = [ ] # Values 128–255 This excludes the following ASCII characters: " * / : < > ? \ | Windows/MSDOS has no shell escape character Lower case letters a–z stored as A–Z on FAT-12/16 Some handy links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable#Examples_of_DOS_environment_variables http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/DOS/DOS7INT.htm Edited February 12, 2009 by somerandomhash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CybTekSol Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 I cut my teeth on the DOS command line many many years ago... it never hurts to refresh my memory! Thanks somerandomhash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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