George Woodbine wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>> Brings me back to my 286 days when keys used to break and ALT was the
>> solution. You know us kids... we get overly excited and smash 'em.
>>
>
> Yup, I remember having directories called '?'[1] etc to 'hide' stuff
> from the sysadmin at school. I remember it working quite well, I'm sure
> File Manager at the time couldn't navigate them(?). Or maybe it didn't
> by default with +HS attributes, can't remember. I know it wasn't long
> before the guy printed out an EBCDIC chart to navigate them in DOS :-)
>
> [1] DOS character 0xCA if you don't see it.
> [2] Sorry for the Unicode post :-)
These were the good times. I used to know many of these codes and quickly
type in entire tables using the ALT key combinations.
There are many characters that Windows is still unable to handle. Every time
I copy a large share of files from UNIX to Windows, Windows complains. It
also imposes a limit on the number of charcaters in a location (path) when
transferring files. Windows, oh bloody Windows...
Roy
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