Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:15:05 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: msdosfs creates illegal dir names? Message-ID: <199701140045.LAA21392@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199701132233.XAA03055@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "Jan 13, 97 11:33:58 pm"
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Wilko Bulte stands accused of saying: > > The end result was that I discovered that there were _on the MSDOS_ > filesystem directories called .xvp (note the leading .) Removing these > made the Mac see all the files like it should. > > Question: are files/dirs with leading . valid DOS names? I'm really > suspicious about 'm (all of this was 2.1.5R BTW) They're perfectly legitimate; it looks like your Mac software is buggy... > Wilko -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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