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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 1996 17:51:58 +1700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        terry@phaeton.artisoft.com (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        rnordier@iafrica.com, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels?
Message-ID:  <199608010051.RAA03097@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199608010044.RAA03051@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jul 31, 96 05:44:08 pm

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> > For completeness, any thoughts on how to handle the following?
> > 
> > Directory containing 3 single-character DOS filenames 0xc3..0xc5:
> > 
> >    SFN   LFN 
> >    c3    251c 
> >    c4    2500 
> >    c5    253c
> > 
> > AFAIK, DOS filenames containing characters >= 0x80 have never been
> > much used, or had much practical value.  So extensive special
> > provision for them almost seems misplaced.
> 
> IBM Code page 819(?) is ISO 8859-1.
> 
> I think you are allowed to have high bit characters in long file names
> (I will check this at next opportunity).

Bad news:

SFN			LFN
A<alt225>SOLUTE		a<alt225>solute

On Win95 (<alt225> is Greek Beta).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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