User's Guide for MS-DOS Clients

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Connecting to a LAN Manager for UNIX Systems Server

FileNaming Conventions

Networks running LAN Manager software can include computers running

different operating systems:

• MS-DOS (client)

• Microsoft Windows (client)

• OS/2 (client or server)

• Macintosh (client)

• UNIX system (server)

• Windows NT (client or server)

These operating systems have different rules for the length of ﬁlenames and

directory names and the characters that can be used in these names. Always

follow the MS-DOS rules for ﬁle and directory names; valid MS-DOS

names will always be accessible and visible to a user in any of the ﬁve

operating system environments.

MS-DOS ﬁlenames and directory names can be up to eight characters long,

plus an optional extension consisting of a period and up to three additional

characters. Illegal characters for MS-DOS names include blank spaces and

the special characters listed below:

" , / [ ] + = ; : * ? \ |