Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:39:10 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions. Message-ID: <19970324213910.41691@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <199703241237.XAA29393@plum.cyber.com.au>
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According to Darren Reed: > Some weirdness I found along the way included strange directory entries > created by Windows NT (and I suspect 95 will do the same) which have the > read only, hidden, system and volume flags set (i.e value of 0x0f). W95 doesn't have that "feature". As NT 3 & 4 don't support VFAT, they have implemented long name support by allocating "hidden" directory entries for the long names, each of the entry can have a max of 12 characters. To prevent DOS to show these entries (when sharing a drive), they put the 4 attributes (in a normal DOS, this is not supposed to happen). It is one hell of a hack IMO (I was really surprised to see they have implemented it like that...). VFAT uses a hidden table for the long names so it doesn't have this problem. Terry will no doubt correct me if I'm wrong :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #41: Sun Mar 23 23:01:22 CET 1997
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