JSI Tip 0185 - NTFS and FAT naming conventions.

Jerold Schulman

July 11, 1997

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NTFS

FAT

Length

255 including extentions(253 from the command line)

8.3 convention

Excludedcharacters

 ? " / * | : < >

  . " / [ ] : ; | = , ? * + < >space

Reservedwords

none

CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL(see Tip 167)

StartWith

Any

Letter or Number

Casesensitive

no, but case is preserved

converted to uppercase



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