Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 23 Sep 1998 08:48:14 -0400 (EDT) | | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Speeding up FAT operations |
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On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Russell Lambert wrote:
> This may not mean much, but two years ago when I first started learning a > computer I was learning QBASIC. And I read a post somewhere of an error in > QBASIC that would allow you to make a space in the name that no other program > could read except another QBASIC program that opened it the same way. It was > something like the following... (I haven't touched it for over a year and a > half so it may not be completely accurate) > > open "blah hi" as binary #1 (or something like this) > print #1, "jkfsdjlkfsdjkl" > close #1 > > Then you can open "blah hi" with the QBASIC program again. > > The system never reported it as an error or anything, and it would show up as > a valid file when you did a DIR. In fact, when you got a directory listing, > it would show it with the space. >
Yes. A DOS File-System emulator cannot assume that DOS file-names are all in upper case. It also can't assume that it contains "valid" characters. DOS File names are not supposed to contain '.', ' ', etc., but they can.
Cheers, Dick Johnson ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** Penguin : Linux version 2.1.118 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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