From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 24 13:08:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA06073 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:08:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA06065 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:08:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA03471 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 22:07:47 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id WAA32058 for hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 22:07:36 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.5/keltia-uucp-2.9) id VAA19062; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:39:11 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19970324213910.41691@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:39:10 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions. References: <199703241237.XAA29393@plum.cyber.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.65,1-4,10,14-18 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3153 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Darren Reed: > Some weirdness I found along the way included strange directory entries > created by Windows NT (and I suspect 95 will do the same) which have the > read only, hidden, system and volume flags set (i.e value of 0x0f). W95 doesn't have that "feature". As NT 3 & 4 don't support VFAT, they have implemented long name support by allocating "hidden" directory entries for the long names, each of the entry can have a max of 12 characters. To prevent DOS to show these entries (when sharing a drive), they put the 4 attributes (in a normal DOS, this is not supposed to happen). It is one hell of a hack IMO (I was really surprised to see they have implemented it like that...). VFAT uses a hidden table for the long names so it doesn't have this problem. Terry will no doubt correct me if I'm wrong :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #41: Sun Mar 23 23:01:22 CET 1997