Is the pipe (|) an illegal character for unix/linux filenames?
I have three questions, really:
1. Is the pipe character (|) an illegal character in either linux or unix filenames? 2. Are Unix/Linux CD-ROMs readable by MS-DOS/Windows, or do they have to be converted first? 3. If there is an emulation of Windows in Linux, are the filenames compatible with each other or not? Thank you. I hope to get a reply to these soon. |
1. I don't if it illegal or not , but I would advise against it.
2. What do you mean readable? The easitest thing todo is boot to M$ put the CD in and see what happens :) 3. Wine, vmware, lin4win |
u can try \| (backslash)
if u want,, but i wouldn't recommend it.. |
By readable, I mean could you read the contents of a file directory from a linux/unix CD-ROM into MS-DOS/Windows?
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thing that will happen is it won't work :) |
OK, I'll level with you - I don't have Linux, Unix or any CD-ROMs for those operating systems. I don't have a means of trying my question on my own, I need input from someone who does! Get me?
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Hi!
1., You could if you *really* wanted to, by using the escape characher '\' followed by the character you want to use, so if you want to have | in your filename you could use file\|.txt or whatever. The previous example would produce the following name 'file|.txt' 2. Well, almost all CD's use the iso9660 filesystem, and windows and *nix can read it. The 'other' cd's are so rare, I've never seen one of them in my life (well, except for audio CD's :p) 3. Well, you could use wine, vmware etc. I'm not sure what you mean by 'compatible', but I can read any windows file in linux, without any problems. Good Luck! RefriedBean |
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