On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 02:58:01PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: [...]
> I do not care about the "microsoft world", and I doubt that this is > required there at the low level (what would be the equivalent of the > Linux kernel) [...] This depends: the FAT file system (which still is the lowest common denominator) actually reserves 8 chars for the file name and three for the --ahem-- extension. The dot isn't encoded explicitly on-disk. DOS itself treats some extensions especially (.BAT, .COM, .EXE); since Windows > 3.1 I (luckily!) lost track of whatever shenanigans Microsoft has been up to. Cheers -- t
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