[Ham-Mac] Lesson Re-Learned about filenames

[David Kelly]

On Nov 9, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Dick Kriss wrote:

> I the old Mac rule revisited is to avoid the use of the slash (/) character
> in filenames.


MacOS X Finder is happy to put a slash in a filename. Its written to disk as a colon which will cause problems for Windows. Am not sure where the substitution takes place or how it behaves if shared via SMB/Samba.

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