Hi, On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Paul Scott wrote:
> dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009, Trevor Daniels <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> said: > > > > > The names are case-insensitive, and they cannot be used as directory > > > names or the first part of a filename (the bit before the dot). > > > > please note, in DOS (and many of its contemporary file systems), what > > users think of as the filename is not actually a ten character field > > but in fact two seperate entitys, the name (6 characters), and a 3 > > character extension. > > It's actually (at least in DOS) an 8 character name and a 3 character > extension and I'm not sure I can agree about the two separate entities > part. >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Directory_table I see that it is indeed 8.3, and that the extension must be at a certain offset, so in a way, name and extension _are_ separate. Regarding the original issue ("aux" as a file/directory name) AFAIR if you specify the absolute path, there are absolutely no problems. Which means that you _can_ have entities with that name, you just have problems accessing them. Ah, the ways we have to _bend_ over for this stupid outdated operating system! Ciao, Dscho _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
