Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Mar 1999 21:50:43 +0000 (GMT) | From | Michael McConnell <> | Subject | Re: FAT speedup patch revisited for 2.2.1 |
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On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> 1. In MS-DOS 1.xx filenames were padded with spaces, but extensions > were inconsistantly padded as follows: > > 1. If the entire extension was unused, three spaces were used > to fill the field. > > 2. If at least one character was used, the field was padded with > NUL (zero) bytes rather than spaces. > > 2. According to MicroSoft's own documentation, from MS-DOS 2.00 the > file system would always pad both fields with spaces where > required. > > I'll agree that systems running MS-DOS 1.xx are probably not in the > majority, but that's the only variation from that specification that I > am aware of...
And, any MSDOS 1.xx box out there is probably <386 anyway.
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