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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels?
From:       Narvi <narvi () haldjas ! folklore ! ee>
Date:       1996-08-01 7:22:45
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On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > For completeness, any thoughts on how to handle the following?
> > 
> > Directory containing 3 single-character DOS filenames 0xc3..0xc5:
> > 
> >    SFN   LFN 
> >    c3    251c 
> >    c4    2500 
> >    c5    253c
> > 
> > AFAIK, DOS filenames containing characters >= 0x80 have never been
> > much used, or had much practical value.  So extensive special
> > provision for them almost seems misplaced.

Actually they have at least around here. People just like to have 
filenames with all those a", o", u" and even o~ (although that is one 
which indeed does make troubles). Nothing ever happened except that nczip 
refuses to pack them up.

> 
> IBM Code page 819(?) is ISO 8859-1.
> 
> I think you are allowed to have high bit characters in long file names
> (I will check this at next opportunity).
> 

You can at least have them there.

	Sander

> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
> 

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