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|    Rob Swindell to Oli    |
|    Problem with filenames containing spaces    |
|    20 Jan 22 15:13:21    |
      TZUTC: -0800       MSGID: 8129.binkd@1:103/705 264f4252       REPLY: 2:280/464.47 61e9e290       PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Win32 master/cd72628ae Jan 19 2022 MSC 1928       TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Linux master/529cfec37 Jan 19 2022 GCC 8.3.0       COLS: 80       BBSID: VERT       CHRS: CP437 2       NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.104        Re: Problem with filenames containing spaces        By: Oli to Rob Swindell on Thu Jan 20 2022 11:30 pm               > Rob wrote (2022-01-20):        >        > >> And it's only a problem with filenames that contains a whitespace        > >> character.        > RS> It's also a problem for filenames that contain any other "unsafe"        > RS> characters that "SHOULD" (according to FTS-1026) be escaped.        >        > You mean like 0x00 to 0x1F (control chars) and backslash (0x53)? How often        > do you use these in filenames? ;)              Preferably, never, but I'm not in control of what characters are used in       filenames received BinkP, the sender is.              Ideally, the BinkP spec would have been even *more* restrictive in the       filename characters allowed (escaped or not), because filenames with colons,       semicolons, asterisks, question marks and vertical-bars (pipes) are *not* what       I would call "safe", yet they're expressly allowed as "safe" in the spec. :-(       --         digital man (rob)              Synchronet "Real Fact" #81:       Vertrauen has had the FidoNet node number 1:103/705 since 1992       Norco, CA WX: 76.0øF, 23.0% humidity, 3 mph NW wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs       --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 15/0 18/0 19/10 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 114/709       SEEN-BY: 116/116 120/340 123/0 25 40 115 126 131 180 190 200 755 124/5016       SEEN-BY: 129/305 330 135/300 138/146 153/757 7715 154/10 203/0 218/700       SEEN-BY: 221/0 1 6 242 360 222/2 226/30 227/114 229/110 200 307 317       SEEN-BY: 229/424 426 550 664 700 230/0 240/1120 5832 249/206 250/1       SEEN-BY: 266/512 275/100 1000 280/464 5003 5555 282/1038 292/854 8125       SEEN-BY: 299/6 300/4 301/1 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757 341/234 342/11       SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 423/81 120 460/58 633/280 640/1138 1321 1384       SEEN-BY: 712/848 770/1 2452/250 3634/0 12 15 27 50 119       PATH: 103/705 280/464 221/1 640/1384 3634/12 153/7715 229/426           |
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