Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:52:15 +1000 | From | Matthew Hawkins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Speeding up FAT operations |
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On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> Not command.com, though - it uses space as an argument delimiter. And, about the
So quote the space character ;)
> character 255 trick - yes, that could be done as well, but it's a different > story, though.
Note that 255 isn't the only blank space character in the ASCII chart. There's three or four of them. I routinely ignored 255 as that was the one most people used, hence was easily "crackable" if somebody figured out that's what's you had done. 11 characters of ASCII 255's can be done real-time by a human in a minute or two. Now, combinations of all four blanks in all 11 filename characters... that was more time than I had unless I knew the combination. Much safer than an ATM PIN number (using NDD to work it out is akin to holding a gun to the head of the guy with the plastic card and demanding the PIN number ;)
-- Matt
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