File name considerations

File names created on UNIX-based clients using characters that are not valid for the Windows® file systems (such as colons, slashes, back slashes, asterisks, question marks, double quotation marks, less than, greater than, and pipe) are transformed into valid short names. Windows-based applications can use the short name to gain access to files.

These rules are used to generate the short name, where the mapped UNIX® file name is prefix.suffix:
For example,
UNIX Windows
foo+bar.foobar foo_ba~5.foo
foo|bar.-bar foo_ba~6._ba
foo|bar.-bary foo_ba~7._ba

Parent topic: Windows-based clients

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