'$' in the file name

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Anton

'$' in the file name

Post by Anton » Mon Aug 09, 2004 4:17 am

There is a problem to work with files contained '$' in the name...
A SOS client can't do anything with such files (says that operation failed)...
Could it be solved somehow?
Thank's.

lbauer
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Post by lbauer » Mon Aug 09, 2004 2:01 pm

This is a limitation of Visual SourceSafe, not SOS. From VSS Help:
Most names in VSS cannot begin or end with spaces or tabs and cannot be device names, for example com1. Any character can be used for names or labels, except the following:

Dollar sign ($)
At sign (@)
Angle brackets (< >), brackets ([ ]), braces ({ }), and parentheses (( ))
Colon : and semicolon ;
Equal sign (=)
Caret sign (^)
Pipe (vertical bar) (|)
Asterisk (*)
Exclamation point (!)
Forward (/) and backward slash (\)
Percent sign (%)
Question mark (?)
Comma (,)
Quotation mark (single or double) (' ")
Tab
You will need to rename the files with the $ in them.
Linda Bauer
SourceGear
Technical Support Manager

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