How to manage file name containing a date with /

[André Bisseret]

Le 22 juil. 2013 à 21:39, J. Landman Gay a écrit :

> On 7/22/13 2:32 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Hm. That would make my last response moot then. I guess I missed where these odd file names were coming from, but apparently they're not coming from disk.
> 
the files are on the disk.
The user receives paper documents. He digitizes the paper documents and saves them as PDF; if he receives the document by email he saves them as PDF.
Anyway he saves this PDF files on his disk in a unique folder (say DOCS BASE) giving a name to each document an informative name. In a lot of these names he is including a date with slash as separator.
such as "Joe PATIENT - bio checkup - 09/2013.pdf" 

I just discovered last week that he should have choose another separator.
As I am developing on Mac and he is using a Mac we had no problem.The problem arises because he needs to pass the app to colleagues the majority of which are working on Windows.

André