Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Sep 1998 21:34:28 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Jukka Tapani Santala <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Speeding up FAT operations |
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On 23 Sep 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Hang on! That's a different thing -- you can't create those files > with DOS system calls. Space *IS* a legal character in DOS filenames > -- the system calls will happily accept it, although the shell won't > (although it will match it against ?).
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.
-Donwulff
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