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Re: Executor and Linux permissions- corr



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




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