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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: msdosfs creates illegal dir names?
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 22:30:27 +0100 (MET)
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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...)
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