From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 4:41:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5ABD37B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 04:41:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bouba.alxhost.com (bouba.alxhost.com [66.96.220.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8C343E6A for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 04:41:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com) Received: from [212.162.175.101] (helo=lusidor2002.lusidor.com) by bouba.alxhost.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17x4MJ-00059h-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 07:41:36 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20021003132831.02f52e38@mail.lusidor.nu> X-Sender: lusidor@mail.lusidor.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 13:44:02 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jimmy Lantz Subject: file naming rulesets/conventions/limitations Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bouba.alxhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [0 0] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - lusidor.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I wonder if there's any rulesets/conventions/limitations to filenames in freebsd? Limits to amount of chars used in filenames (I've heard 14 chars but I use more and havent had any problems) What special chars ar allowed? (can I use @ in a filename for instance? I've tested, it works, just want to know if it can give me some problems later on...) Tia Jim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message