On Monday, 1994-08-29  Kelly Schrock wrote to Jonathan de Boyne Pollar
about "What'S In A Name ?" as follows:

KS> JP>    > What is a valid file name under OS/2?
KS> JP> 
KS> JP>    Make no assumptions !  About all that you can guarantee is that ':',
KS> JP>    '\', '/' and NUL will be disallowed.
KS> 
KS> Actually, it's okay to use the "/" character in filenames in
KS> function calls that  use slashes. Apparently, the inability to use
KS> the "/" character in a filename is just a limitation of CMD.EXE and
KS> COMMAND.COM

Hi Kelly,

I think you misunderstood a semantic subtlety.

The filename is simply the last node of the path and filename
combination. As such, the punctuation marks that delineate the
components are not permitted in filenames themselves. Thus ':', '/',
'\' and the C/C++ string terminator NUL are the only characters that
are surely forbidden in filenames; for the full path, though, they are
essential. (But the discussion was on filenames.)

Regards

Dave

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