Re: Data transfer methods

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_grex.cyberspace.org)
Date: 2005-05-12 06:44:52

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Jim Brain wrote:

>  From my work with FAT, it appears only the space char is illegal in a 
> FAT filename.  For cross platform usage, '.' and '\' might also need to 
> be avoided, but the actual spec doesn't prevent them from being used.  
> FAT is a single byte charset, so only whatever will fit into 8 bits per 
> char will work, but that's no worse than CBM.

Actually, there are some tricks that will write FAT filenames with a space 
in them.  They can be retrieved by using a question mark where the space 
is.



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