From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 13 16:45:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA19684 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:45:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA19675 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:45:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id LAA21392; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:15:06 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701140045.LAA21392@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: msdosfs creates illegal dir names? In-Reply-To: <199701132233.XAA03055@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "Jan 13, 97 11:33:58 pm" To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:15:05 +1030 (CST) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[