[Coco] Valid file names for Disk BASIC

[Salvador Garcia]

Hi all. I am doing some catch up on different aspects of the Color Computer and was reading about Disk BASIC file names.

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I was looking at this page: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yakowenk/coco/text/diskbasic.html

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Also, I consulted the Color Computer Disk System, Owner's manual and Programming Guide 

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(http://tandycoco.com/techdocs/cocodisksystem.pdf)

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The basic rules for file names is that they can be at most 8 chars, followed by an optional extension which consists of a slash (/) or dot and then by at most 3 chars. The information makes mention that a slash, a colon, a dot and the digit zero are not permitted in the file name. It makes no mention of any other characters, such as dashes, underscores, dollar signs, and so on.

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Does that mean that I can use any character, not in the forbidden list given above, in the file name? Thanks! Salvador
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