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Why does Windows Compressed Folders (Zip folders) reject paths that begin with a slash?

October 10, 2012 Oct 10, 2012 10/10/12

Raymond Chen

A customer asked, "Does NTFS support files with a null string as the name?" No, NTFS does not support files with no name. None of the commonly-used Windows file systems do. Files must have a name. But what a strange question that is. The customer was kind enough to explain why they cared. "We have a zip file that the Compressed Folders (Zip ...