True. A friend of mine accidentally created a file called * in his home
directory on the first day of university and was afraid to delete it for
3 years.

On 7/1/07, David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:57:58AM +0200, J?r?me Gardou wrote:
>
> All I know is that wine shouldn't use * and ? , since it is used in wildcards
> on both Unix and Windows !

But they are not illegal in unix filenames.
Only 2 byte values cannot be used, 0 and '/'.

        David

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