Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 18 Oct 1996 00:24:50 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: msdos fs bug? (comma in filename) |
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On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Andrew E. Mileski wrote:
> > So, if MS-DOS can't handle commas in filenames, linux msdos-fs should'nt > > create such filenames, IMHO. > > I agree (for what it's worth). I get this all time with many > bad characters in the name - seems the vfat system accepts > almost anything, yet Win95 barfs (can list it, but can't otherwise > open or rename it). >
Don't you just love MS, vfat is a posix.1 complient fs (I think posix.1), but Win95 can't handle all the chars you can stuff in the file names. ie vfat is posix compliant, but Win95's filesystem code isn't.
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