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- In-Reply-To: <9510210028.AA04988@opus.MIT.EDU> from "jered@mit.edu" at Oct 20, 95 08:28:09 pm
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- 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:
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- move BLAH?FOO.?DF BLAH_FOO._DF
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- 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.
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- --Toby Everett
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