Re: [Pipmak-Users] File name limitations

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

Urs Holzer wrote:
> Different platforms have different filename limitations. Which
> characters should I use for filenames and how long should they be at
> maximum? I don't want that my game does not run on a platform where
> pipmak works, only because of unsupported filenames.

Pipmak is currently officially supported on Mac OS X (>= 10.3.9), Linux, 
and Windows (>= 98). I don't know offhand what the limitations of these 
OSes and/or their usual file systems are. If you want to be paranoid, 
stick to something like [a-zA-Z0-9_-] and a maximum length of 31 
characters. More importantly, make sure not to depend on case 
sensitivity: having two files that only differ in case won't work on a 
case-insensitive file system (usual on Mac OS and Windows), referring to 
a file using different case than what it's actually named won't work on 
a case-sensitive file system (usual on Linux and other Unixes).

On the other hand, if your project is zipped, the file system 
limitations play no role at all. You're only limited by the ZIP format 
itself. (Whose limitations I don't remember either - I guess you should 
find them somewhere in the specification, 
<http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT>.)

  -Christian