Comment by xpaulbettsx
7 years ago
Yes they can, though one problems is that because NT paths are less restrictive than Win32 paths, you can create files / directories that you then have trouble doing things with using standard tools
7 years ago
Yes they can, though one problems is that because NT paths are less restrictive than Win32 paths, you can create files / directories that you then have trouble doing things with using standard tools
Notably the Windows shell does not support longlong file names, like, at all. The Windows shell and Win32 APIs are also easily confused by files using the NTFS POSIX namespace, which may have \ in their name.