escaping DOS

[Walter Vaughan]

Ryan Powers wrote:

>Here's a new one in my big book of bugs. End-user created a Windows
>username, e.g. Jon&Jane
>
>Does anyone see a problem there? We have a program that calls filePro and
>uses the %tmp%, i.e. c:\users\Jon&Jane.
>It turns out that ampersands are illegal in DOS. I tried to escape it, as in
>Jon\&Jane but that doesn't work either. Are escapes even possible? 
>
>I've posted here first since this might enlighten other filePro users.
>  
>
Not illegal. Maybe you just need to wrap inside quotes

C:\Users\wvaughan\Desktop>dir "joe&jane.txt"
 Volume in drive C is OS

 Directory of C:\Users\wvaughan\Desktop

10/03/2012  04:22 PM                 0 joe&jane.txt
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  32,417,320,960 bytes free