Windows app that creates files with $ in filename?

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msetzerii
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Windows app that creates files with $ in filename?

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Have a windows Program Pegasus Mail that works fine on its own, but has an extension that will cause crashes.
The Pegasus Program creates a number of files that contain $ in filenames. Few letters $ few more then extention that ends with $.
The addon IERenderer will crash. Wondering if it might be the passing of filenames between the Program EXE file and the IERENDERER.DLL.

Know in DOS/WINDOWS the $ was a common character used in filename created for temporary use, but in Linux they represent variables.

Not sure if using a different character in filenames might solve problem. Say using an "_" instead of "$".
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Re: Windows app that creates files with $ in filename?

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With regards to https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58304 (and to keep the mailing list quiet):

You can

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rm -r ~/.wine
and start with a fresh wineprefix, you don't have to manually uninstall IE8. Obviously don't do that if you have anything important in your wineprefix. For testing you can set it to anything you like.

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WINEPREFIX=~/testing wine foo.exe
Also you don't need to install winetricks, it's just a script.
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/w ... winetricks
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