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ILLEGAL CHARACTERS IN FILE NAMES
I once had one of computer tutoring clients calling me to
correct a problem she was having saving a letter she'd
written using Windows Wordpad. I talked with her about
it, found out she was trying save the letter with a file
name that contained a date in the form
"MM/DD/YY", and then told her that the
character / was an illegal one to use in file names. I
then looked up what other characters were illegal to use
in file names and wrote her an email about it. Here is
that list: / ? < > \ : * | " and also any
character you can type using the Ctrl key.
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