Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 19:13 +0100 schrieb Ralf Reköndt: > Tobias Fröschle wrote: > > > (and there's no need to implement a FAT filesystem on the QL) > > ...which maybe has the advantage of true directories... > > Cheers...Ralf Ralf, well, maybe when FAT directories would be used, you'd run into the same problems with file/directory name ambiguity that QPC has on DOS file systems - in VFAT, the directory marker "\" is disallowed to being part of a file/directory name, in QDOS the underscore may well be part of it. QPC has some (for good reasons) restrictions like not allowing RENAME on DOS file systems. All in all, I do think there's worse parts in the QDOS file system than its directory handling - like the length restrictions for path names (32 characters don't quite fit into the 21st century).
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