Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Speeding up FAT operations | Date | 24 Sep 1998 08:13:46 GMT |
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Followup to: <36094966.4C809A4B@teleteam.net> By author: Trever Adams <highlander@teleteam.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > 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. > > I think you will find that the space probably became chr$(255) if I > remember correctly. I believe some of the OS/2 rule breaking files are > also char 255. (Maybe it was 128... I cant even remember what space is > off hand, but I do remember that these tended to be something NOT > space.) > > To check it out go to a DOS/windows/etc box and try to edit that file... > you know how to get all the blah hi stuff.. for the space do ALT+255 > (255 must be done on the numpad). > > Anyway, this is how I remember it. I used to hide things in files that > way as well. >
No, you could put an honest-to-goodness space there.
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