Using a Forward Slash (/) in CFFILE Destination

Hi everyone,
I couldn't find this anywhere in the forums (at least not
searching for "cffile forward slash", "cffile /", or "cffile
destination") and hope I'm posting this in the correct place
(please let me know if not). I need to use a forward slash (/) in
the name of a file using cffile, but when I try to set destination
= "c:\directory\file/name.txt" cf throws an exception and tells me
that the system can't find the "c:\directory\file\" directory. Is
there a way to froce ColdFusion to interpret the forward slash as
part of the file name instead of a directory structure character?
By the way I'm using ColdFusion 6.1 Standard Edition on a Windows
box (obviously).

quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
I could be wrong on that. I was not going on personal
experience, just
something that stuck in my mind when reading something. I
cannot find the
URL @ present, but I'm sure I read that the only actual
*illegal* character
in a *nix file name is the NULL character. But experience
trumps reading.
The best I could find is this:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/iisbook/c03_converting _unix_file_names_and_pathnames.mspx?mfr=true.
Although that is not where I originally read it.
Adam
The above sounds right and seems to be generally correct in
practice (I'm testing by transferring files from OSX to Windows),
with the exception of the "/" character. It's possible that "/"
isn't, in fact, illegal to a *nix OS, but just isn't valid as a
file name in any applications (including those that ship wtih the
OS).
However, It's also possible (read: probable) that I have no
idea what I'm talking about. I'll see what I can find and post it
here, would be good to know as I'm sure others have run into this
(and I'm sure this won't be the last time I'm given a ridiculous
naming convention).

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