On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:58:09 +1000 Russell Coker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:40:50 Jason White wrote: > > I always make sure that files on my system don't have names > > containing spaces. > > Best to avoid all punctuation characters other than a '.' or '-' in > the middle of a file name (never use a '-' as the first character). > > In theory the only character you must avoid in a file name is '/', > but in practice almost every other punctuation character than '.' and > '-' has the potential to make things difficult. That said a '~' is > OK as long as it's not the first character in a name, a '+' is > probably OK and a ',' has looking like a '.' as it's biggest problem. > Just out of interest I regularly use '_', and have not had a problem. Russell, is this a character you would say can cause trouble? What sort of trouble does it cause? -- Hugh _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
