Support special filenames

[mdruiter]

It would be really nice if Salamander supported handling 'special' filenames. For instance:

• ending in a dot
• ending in a space
• reserved names like CON or NUL
• longer than 256 characters

For instance, try creating a file called "...", like this:

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echo.>"\\?\C:\Temp\..."

These filenames can also be (accidentally) created with Cygwin tools, for instance.
Now try to rename or delete the file with Salamander:

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Error Renaming File
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(32) The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

The way to fix this is to prepend \\?\ to the absolute path:

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del "\\?\C:\Temp\..."

Maybe it's as easy as retrying failed file operations with \\?\ prepended?

I'm not talking about Unicode support, although I think that's related.

[Ether]

+1 from me.