See below .LCK file cannot be opened

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Mike Leone wrote:

>On 2/1/2011 8:06 AM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
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>>>If you want a filename or directory with spaces, just enclose the entire
>>>name with quotes ("This is my file").
>>>
>>>Ampersands (&) are a reserved system character, and so shouldn't be used.
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>The problem  is an "operating system" issue. Some of the stuff used by 
>>gnucash assumes that "&" is a special character because it in in the 
>>'nix operating systems where these components came from (but it is a 
>>legal character in a Windows name). 
>>    
>>
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>The ampersand (&) is used to run multiple commands on one line in the
>Windows shell, just like it does in *nix. It's a system symbol, like
>pipe (|).
>
><http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds_shelloverview.mspx?mfr=true>
>
>Note
>
>• The ampersand (&), pipe (|), and parentheses ( ) are special
>characters that must be preceded by the escape character (^) or
>quotation marks when you pass them as arguments.
>
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But that's not the problem here. I wasn't saying that the "&" had no 
special usage in Microsoft. It is indeed reserved in certain contexts. 
But it's not reserved in ALL contexts and is legal in a path name (a 
file or directory can have an "&" in its name). But that causes problems 
for gnucash (as I said, not gnucash itself, but something that it uses). 
In my case that was the "user name" (since that gets used for the name 
of the user's main data directory)

Michael


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