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- From: jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner)
- Subject: Re: MS-DOS FST
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- References: <47pm7ad.lunatic@netcom.com> <66@generic.UUCP> <71205@apple.Apple.COM> <1992Aug18.223527.9206@fawlty.towers.oz.au>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:12:13 GMT
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- johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz.au (John MacLean) writes:
-
- >In article <71205@apple.Apple.COM> dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons) writes:
- [...]
- >>Here's one possible list of default translations:
- >>
- >> suffix ftype auxtype
- >> .TXT $04 $0000 text file
- >> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- >> .GIF $C0 $8006 GIF file
- >>
- >>Reasonable? ($04 is Text and $06 is Binary.)
-
- >Firstly, most of these conversions sound fine:
- >Anything that makes sense -> $04 $0000
- >Anything that makes sense -> $06 $0000
- >everything else -> $00 $0000
-
- This sounds good.
-
- >You could consider adding an unknown MSDOS filetype,
- >and encoding the three letter extension into the auxtype.
- >This would of course provide a totally reversable translation.
-
- I don't think you can take a 21-bit (3x7 bits/char) ASCII string and
- jam it into a 16-bit string. MSDOS allows more than just letters in
- their filenames, they allow almost everything printable. Someone
- will know exactly which characters are allowed and which aren't, I
- don't know.
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- Jerry Penner jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca | "Wanna buy a duck" (Hi Joe :)
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