INFO: Legal Visual SourceSafe Naming Conventions (138299)

SUMMARY

Visual 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 Syntax

NTFS:

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