Legal Visual SourceSafe Naming ConventionsLast reviewed: January 30, 1997Article ID: Q138299 |
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SUMMARYVisual SourceSafe does not allow certain characters in project names and filenames. Some of these limitations are specific to certain operating systems and some are over all platforms. Attempting to use these characters may cause the computer to hang (stop responding), quit, or corrupt some files. Please use caution when dealing with non-standard names.
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Legal Filename SyntaxNTFS:
1 to 255 character name Complete path for a file or project name cannot exceed 259 characters, including the separators May not begin or end with a space May not begin with a $ May contain 1 or more file extensions (eg. MyFile.Ext1.Ext2.Ext3.Txt) Legal characters in the range of 32 - 255 but not ?"/\<>*|: Filenames may be mixed case Filename comparisons are case insensitive (eg. ThIs.TXT = this.txt)MS-DOS and Windows 3.1:
1 to 11 characters in the 8.3 naming convention Legal characters are A-Z, 0-9, Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) characters (128 - 255), and _^$~!#%&-{}@'() May not contain spaces, 0 - 31, and "/\[]:;|=, Must not begin with $ Uppercase only filenames, lowercase letters are mapped to uppercase Legal Project Name Syntax
Project name must be 1 to 259 characters in length Illegal characters are "\<>|:; and tab May not begin or end with spaces May not begin with a $ May contain DBCS characters Legal Label Syntax
Label must be 1 to 31 characters in length Must not begin or end with spaces or tabs May contain DBCS characters Legal Username Syntax
Username must be 1 to 31 characters Must not begin or end with a space May not contain !"$%'()/:;<>?@[]\{}=^|*, or tab May contain DBCS characters REFERENCESQuery using "Conventions for Filenames" in Visual SourceSafe Books Online.
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