Re: Version 2.1.70 ms-dos fs strange.

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
By author:    "Richard B. Johnson" <[e-mail]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> You can't start a ms-dos file name with 0xe5 (means erased file), and
> you can't have more than "filename.typ" characters. That's all. The
> '.' is never put into the file-name. The above example results in
> FILENAMETYP as a directory entry.
> 

Actually, you can.  A leading 0xe5 character is stored as 0x05 on
disk.  This is yet another historical accident of the MS-DOS
filesystem...

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