Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:07:41 +0100 From: Jon Schneider <freebsd@jschneider.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sh scripting question Message-ID: <69FD7F52-B1D9-4540-9379-CD3122BEDBB6@jschneider.net>
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There’s a YouTube publisher called enderman who shows how how inconsistently these special CP/M and DOS file names are handled in Windows. He does things like create install Windows itself into con. I have found you can total OneNote for Windows users by creating a notebook called for example “con”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcAdgcAvTCs&t=221s Having watched these I am convinced Microsoft should have simply allowed them in Windows. Currently there is a horrible mess. As for the original problem the only (and safe and portable way among all OSs that use C language interfaces) is to assume that the null character is the only safe separator in file lists. Because of the underlying C language interfaces. Jon > such as "COM1:". :-
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