> > > MessDos deletes files by marking the first letter in the filename > > > is marked '?'. > > > > Indeed, so does the Sam and so does CP/M (although the ? is probably a > > zero character). > > On the SAM it is NULL, but I seem to remember it's a '?' on MS/DOS.
On the Sam, a deleted file has it's filetype changed to 'NULL'. To mark the end of the directory, both the filetype AND the first character of the file name is 'NULL'. Colin Piggot. ============================================================================ | | RECOVER-E : Sam disk repair / file recovery utility | | Colin G. Piggot | (C) 1994 Colin Piggot / Phoenix Software Systems | | --------------- | What the magazines said: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 'Recover-E... without which this issue would not be | | ---------------- | here - Buy it NOW' Issue 6 Zodiac Magazine | ============================================================================
