OPENFILEDIALOG$ question on a Mac

[mnrvovrfc]

You guys should take a moment to look at this:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#C...imitations

Of particular note, in this case, is the list of reserved characters which can't be used in file names:   :

Something I did not know until today. Thank you Steve.

But this is really wild. ApCo wanted to get everybody away from terminal, away from scripting, obviously. The "star-dot-star" was pervasive in Windows programming not too long ago. On Linux one star could be enough for some programs like 7-Zip. It's getting confussin', cousin!

I have slapped my palm many times because we still cannot write our own subprograms and functions which could be styled in code just like this _OPENFILEDIALOG$.