How to manage file name containing a date with /

[Dar Scott]

I'm not trying to fool the OS.  It is already fooled the way I understand the problem.  The scanner created files with "/" in the name.  

On Jul 22, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> Dar-
> 
> Monday, July 22, 2013, 8:05:15 AM, you wrote:
> 
>> That is what I was suggesting, with the fix above.  But, now I
>> have less faith in that.  It might be that that character is not
>> really there but is displayed by Windows Explorer.
> 
> I'd be very wary of trying to fool the operating system with things it
> isn't expecting. At one point I managed to create a file with a name
> that ended with ".txt " (note the trailing space). I could see it by
> displaying the directory, but the file was inaccessible to either the
> file system or any utility I threw at it. That file stayed right where
> it was until the hard drive finally died.
> 
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder
> mwieder at ahsoftware.net
> 
> 
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