Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 22:30:27 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: Re: msdosfs creates illegal dir names? Message-ID: <199701142130.WAA02062@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199701140045.LAA21392@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 14, 97 11:15:05 am
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As Michael Smith wrote... > 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... This is getting interesting :-) Other people tell me you have to have a 'normal' character before any . Wilko (who does not like DOS...) _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl - Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Do, or do not. There is no 'try' - Yoda --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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