Defining legal character set for folder/file names

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Vinod Gupta

Is there any way to redefine legal character-set for naming folder or
file names? In our enterprise, many of our Windows machines are used
in Unix environment. It will be desirable to define a global
charater-set that excludes characters like Space, Tab, $ etc.

Thanks,
Vinod
 
If you use posix tools you can create unix names. But posix was removed in XP leaving only Windows (OS/2 was removed in Win 2000). Windows can't use illegal windows filenames. NT itself is agnostic. So you need to find a program that will as windows programs won't. This also means windows program's can't use an windows illegal named file.

This means it needs to be a NT native program (like chkdsk on startup), which is not documented but has been reversed engineered.
 
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