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From: Steve Willoughby <steve@ichips.intel.com>
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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: msdosfs creates illegal dir names?
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On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Michael Smith wrote:

> You can't say "mkdir .foo", no, but the standards for what is and
> isn't a "valid" filename are pretty grey, and "        .foo" is well 
> within them.

Maybe, but I have had trouble with FreeBSD's msdosfs allowing illegal
filenames, like "foo.c,v"  or (AFAIR) "foo.c.b" which makes MS-DOS puke.

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