DOS ain't dead - DOS Filenames

DOS Filenames (Users)

posted by bretjohn , Rio Rancho, NM, 27.07.2010, 22:09

> And my main pet peeve is the following ...
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> Reference ...
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660
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> Please observe it's directory depth limitation of "8". Even on a simple
> FAT32 drive.

This is interesting, since this is even more restrictive than DOS file naming conventions. This says that file names can only have upper-case letters, numbers, and underscores. There are quite a few more "legal" characters than those that can be used in a DOS file name.

This also says that directory names must never use dots (and thus are limited to 8 characters), also more restrictive than DOS (and not simply a "preference"). I see Rugxulo's comment below about some DOS programs not working with 8.3 directory names, but those are buggy programs, not a limitation of DOS. All DOS programs are _supposed_ to be able to understand 8.3 directory names.

In addition, DOS is not limited to 8 levels of sub-directories. The limit in DOS is that the path name to a file can be no longer than 64 characters. In some cases this is less than 8 levels, and in other cases more.

So ...

Are you recommending that only ISO 9660 Level 1 compatible file names be used, or DOS 8.3 compatible file names?

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Complete thread:

DOS Filenames - w3a537, 27.07.2010, 07:03 (Users)
- DOS Filenames - RayeR, 27.07.2010, 16:36
  - DOS Filenames - Rugxulo, 27.07.2010, 17:05
    - DOS Filenames - RayeR, 30.07.2010, 00:14
- DOS Filenames - bretjohn, 27.07.2010, 22:09
  - DOS Filenames - Arjay, 27.07.2010, 22:47
    - DOS Filenames - w3a537, 28.07.2010, 06:10
  - DOS Filenames - w3a537, 28.07.2010, 06:07
    - DOS Filenames - DOS386, 28.07.2010, 06:20
      - DOS Filenames - w3a537, 28.07.2010, 07:54
        DOS Filenames - ron, 28.07.2010, 08:46
        DOS Filenames - DOS386, 29.07.2010, 05:42
        DOS Filenames - Japheth, 29.07.2010, 07:28
        DOS Filenames - Rugxulo, 29.07.2010, 08:22
        DOS Filenames - Japheth, 29.07.2010, 08:52
        DOS Filenames - Rugxulo, 30.07.2010, 05:30
        DOS Filenames - DOS386, 30.07.2010, 06:10
        DOS Filenames - Japheth, 30.07.2010, 07:23
        DOS Filenames for Steve - DOS386, 30.07.2010, 07:46
        DOS Filenames for Steve - w3a537, 31.07.2010, 05:25
        DOS Filenames for Steve - DOS386, 31.07.2010, 07:49
        DOS Filenames for Steve - Rugxulo, 31.07.2010, 13:13
        DOS Filenames for Steve - DOS386, 31.07.2010, 13:29
        DOS Filenames for Steve - w3a537, 01.08.2010, 00:55
        DOS Filenames for Steve - w3a537, 01.08.2010, 00:36
        DOS Filenames - Rugxulo, 30.07.2010, 15:16
        DOS Filenames - RayeR, 30.07.2010, 21:00
        DOS Filenames - Japheth, 31.07.2010, 07:06
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 31.07.2010, 05:23
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 31.07.2010, 05:12
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 31.07.2010, 05:08
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 31.07.2010, 05:51
        DOS Filenames - Khusraw, 31.07.2010, 08:05
        DOS Filenames - Rugxulo, 31.07.2010, 13:08
        DOS Filenames - Khusraw, 31.07.2010, 13:39
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 01.08.2010, 01:07
        DOS Filenames - Rugxulo, 31.07.2010, 13:04
        DOS Filenames - Japheth, 31.07.2010, 13:44
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 01.08.2010, 01:32
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 01.08.2010, 01:27
        DOS Filenames - Arjay, 01.08.2010, 11:40
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 01.08.2010, 23:05
        Filewatcher (DOS Filenames) - Arjay, 02.08.2010, 08:43
        DOS Filenames - mht, 02.08.2010, 07:51
        DOS Filenames - w3a537, 02.08.2010, 21:47
        DOS Filenames - mht, 03.08.2010, 06:57
- DOS Filenames | NTLFN crap - DOS386, 28.07.2010, 03:41
  - DOS Filenames | NTLFN crap - w3a537, 28.07.2010, 06:29