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Received: from osiris.ac.hmc.edu (Osiris.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA20187 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 19:44:45 -0700 Received: (from teverett@localhost) by osiris.ac.hmc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA14967 for executor@nacm.com; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 19:44:41 -0700 From: Tobermory Everett <teverett@osiris.ac.hmc.edu> Message-Id: <199510210244.TAA14967@osiris.ac.hmc.edu> Subject: Re: Executor and Linux permissions- corr To: jered@mit.edu Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 19:44:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9510210028.AA04988@opus.MIT.EDU> from "jered@mit.edu" at Oct 20, 95 08:28:09 pm Reply-To: Tobermory_Everett@hmc.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 726 Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk jered@mit.edu wrote: > Under DOS, however, the space is not a valid character (in the shell) and > some sort of mapping (presumably the underscore '_') is in order. There is a work around under DOS. To move the file "BLAH FOO. DF" to "BLAH_FOO._DF" use the command: move BLAH?FOO.?DF BLAH_FOO._DF Note that this will not work if there are any other files that match the BLAH?FOO.?DF search string. This trick was discovered by OS/2 users that were using DOS based disk defragmenters to defrag FAT partitions that OS/2 had used. OS/2 uses the files "EA DATA. SF" and "WP ROOT. SF" to store extended attribute information for the drive, and it was handy to rename them to traditional DOS filenames first. --Toby Everett