From: Spiro Trikaliotis (ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net)
Date: 2005-05-12 09:39:31
Hello,
* On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:28:53AM +0300 Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 06:55:10PM -0500, Jim Brain wrote:
> > From my work with FAT, it appears only the space char is illegal in a
> > FAT filename.
>
> Didn't you forget about other command.com metacharacters [<>*?/] and
> the colon?
Well, these are limitations of command.com, not of FAT!
Remember: Back in the old days, command.com did not even allow spaces in
a filename. This has changed with newer implementations (command.com of
Win95 and later, cmd.exe of NT)
> Also, deleted file names are marked with 0xe5 or something like that
> in the first character of the file name.
Yes, but it is only the first character.
Regards,
Spiro.
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