Are you sure this is correct? I routinely use comma in file names and
have never received an error. I don't think this is the cause of my
problem because I can e-mail attachments having commas in the file
name to myself and others.

The problem is that somewhere along the line the comma gets stripped
from the name.

P.S. sorry about the re-post, for some reason I couldn't reply to the
previous one.


REPLY---------
The comma is an illegal character in Windows files. The following
cannot be
used:

? [ ] / \ = + : ; " ,





ORIGINAL MESSAGE----------------------
I've noticed that when people in my office exchange e-mail with
attachments that have punctuation in the file name, the punctuation
frequently gets removed from the file name - such as with an
attachment named "Firstname, Lastname.doc" somewhere along the way,
the comma gets deleted.

This is a problem because people end-up with 2 versions of the file -
one with comma and one without.

Does anyone know how this happens or what the rules are for
permissible punctuation marks?

wrote:

Are you sure this is correct?

I don't think so. Documents for Windows 95 and 98 explicitly mention the
comma as an allowed character and NTFS documentation states that since file
names are Unicode, the only reserved characters are ? " / \ * | :
(question mark, quote, virgule or slash, reverse virgule or backslash, less
than, greater than, asterisk, vertical bar, and colon).
--
Brian Tillman