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Subject: Re: Problem with non-valid file names on w32
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> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:10:45 +0100
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> 
> Unfortunately I know no good way (ie a w32 API) to test if a file name 
> is valid

I really don't think we should fix it for w32 alone.  Emacs doesn't
check the file name for validity on _any_ system; why should Windows
behave differently?