File names

Some values are file names. For each stanza entry that expects a file name as a value, the description of the stanza entry specifies which of the following constructs are valid:

Some stanza entries allow more than one of these choices.

The set of valid characters in a file name can be determined by the file system and by the local code set. For Windows operating systems, file names cannot have a backward slash (\), a colon (:), a question mark (?), or double quotation marks (").

Parent topic: Guidelines for changing configuration files