Re: [PATCH] Speeding up FAT operations

Jukka Tapani Santala (e75644@UWasa.Fi)
Wed, 23 Sep 1998 11:24:20 +0300 (EET DST)

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Russell Lambert wrote:
> filename or anything. Sorry I can't remember exactly where I originally
> found it, but just wanted to let you know that skipping a space check might
> be dangerous. Some people were using that as a way to protect passwords and
> things like that because only another QBASIC program could open it. (of
> course, that was almost 2 years ago)

Well, I haven't been skipping the space because it turned up to not work.
BTW, the reason DOS shows the space is because it just uses the FAT fields
as is, showing the filenames padded to 8.3 characters. (Another reason I'd
be very surprised to find zero used as end-sign) Linux, however, converts
them to a continuous format. And, BTW, we used "phantom spaces" for that
;)

-Donwulff

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