>From .NET, I am using the process approach to zip a list of files. Some of them contains $ and comma characters. At first, I thought those were forbidden by Windows to be included in a file name. However, I was able to create a file on disk with such characters. However, WinZip won't zip such a file saying it cannot find then. Are you able to negotiate with those two characters as is in a file name?
How about to round the name of the file in quotation marks?
winzip ... "someTestFile$@#%$.txt"
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