INFO: Legal Visual SourceSafe Naming Conventions

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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