Windows

Various pages relating to the Microsoft Windows operating system environment.

FAT system allows paths up to 260 characters, including the file name and the last character, reserved for terminating the string.

Characters allowed in DOS/Windows file names.

0-9 numbers
$ dollar sign
a-z letters(upper- lowercase doesn't matter, but pay attention, in Unix (web!) it matters!)
( ) parentheses
# size / number sign
& ampersand (not officially supported, some programs won't work)
_ underscore
^ caret (not officially supported, some programs won't work)
' apostrophe
` opening single quotation mark hyphen
@ at sign
{ } left and right curly braces
- hyphen
% percent sign
~ tilde
! exclamation mark
blank/space
. point/dot (more than one now allowed)

DOS32 / Windows 95 SR2 and later can use other characters.

above 80hex
german/swedish umlauts
etc

Forbidden characters in DOS / Windows file names.

<
>
:
"
/
\
|

last updated: 2004-02-10t16:48z