>It stops most users: some of those spaces are chr(32) others are
>chr(255). You'll have to try every one. Also the upsidedown ! works
>like the sigma trick below. Also directory like: "H       " are good.
>It looks like a "H" in DOS and Windoze can't read it. DELTREE wont
>even erase it.

Upside down ! and ? aren't that hard 173 and 168. All spanish users will
have even easier to change into them.

> ] Combine this with an "&" on NT and the user will have hard time getting
> ] into it since & here gives "DOS" more power. It's a really nice feature,
> ] also OS/2 has problems if you create a & in the directory name (perhaps
> ] this is where NT got it from?)
>
>I hate the "&" in NT. I'm forced to use it and they only give us 10MB
>of HDD space, no zip drives and no Winzip. So when trying to zipup a
>file to span with "pkzip -ex -& a:\file" kept resulting in "The
>system cannot find the EXE, COM or batch file" [or similar]. :(

Just type everythin inside "" and NT will not bother you with this
bug/feature (depending of your view at it)
//Bernie

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