See below .LCK file cannot be opened

[Mike Leone]

On 2/1/2011 2:42 PM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>>
>> • 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

But is not legal in ALL contexts, as you say. So safer to NOT ever use
it in a file or directory name, else you could be (inadvertently) using
it in a context it's not allowed. Just as easy to use " and ", rather
than " & ", and is always guaranteed to work, and avoid the problems the
OP was having.