Re: ntfs naming conventions

Concerning Re: ntfs naming conventions
Ryan Schmidt wrote on 16 Sep 2009, 2:25, at least in part:

> The Wikipedia says "the space and the period are not allowed as the
> final character of a filename". To me, this means a filename like
> "filename.ext " or "filename.ext." would not be acceptable but says
> nothing about "filename .ext" or "filename..ext" which seem to me like
> valid filenames. Then again, I don't use Windows.

A few quick tests on W2K SP4:

Rename "filename.ext" to "filename.ext." => the added period at
the end is dropped. The same goes for added space.

Rename "filename" to "filename." => dito.

So you are right, Ryan. In this context Wikimedia understands
filename as one thing, with or without extension (and including the
whole path, too?).

JH
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Received on 2009-09-16 11:50:24 CEST