On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 3:38 PM Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote: > > Those extra "spaces" may not really be spaces at all -- they may > actually be ASCII 0 or ASCII 255, which look like a regular space (ASCII > 32) on the screen even though they aren't. I've ran into similar > issues at various times that have caused me all kinds of grief. There > are also some DOS Code Pages where other characters (besides 0, 32, and > 255) also are blank (they look like a normal space when they aren't). > > I've even tried to take advantage of this fact in the past when trying > to make directories and files formatted for easier reading or keeping > users from easily entering a directory I didn't want them to be in > for some reason.
Possibly. I'll add that the AMB directory I tested *already existed* on the filesystem before I ran PC Tools. All I did in PC Tools was navigate to my AMB directory, view the AMB.TXT file that was already there, then exit back to DOS. That was all I needed to reproduce the problem. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
