Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Speeding up FAT operations | Date | Thu, 24 Sep 1998 12:37:17 -0700 (PDT) |
| |
> > According to several sources, space _is_ invalid in MS- and IBM-DOS at > least. (IBM DOS Technical Reference, page 2-4; Using IBM DOS 4.0, page 23; > Microsoft MS-DOS 4.0 Users Guide and Reference, pages 16 thru 17; > Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Users Guide and Reference, pages 69 through 70) The > fact that some questionable(?) process lets you create them doesn't change > the fact - if you take a disk-editor to your disk-contents, it's possible > to create a number of illegal combinations. Besides of which, I suspect > you're confusing with the "Phantom Space" as somebody else suggested > earlier. On the other hand, there's often still reason to support > non-standard behaviour - but once again, this isn't even an issue with > the patches referred to by this thread. >
The manuals say so, but the OS disagrees. COMMAND.COM doesn't like it, though. Note that you're reading the *user guide*, which isn't exactly a spec.
MS-DOS will, in fact, let you create a filename with spaces in them, although I believe it will not let the space be the first character (and as the last character it gets cropped.)
-hpa
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |