Charles Dye wrote:
<snip>
 >   (It's chr$(229), the lower- case sigma.)  So if you
 > create a filename starting with that character, DOS will
 > instead store 05h in the directory entry, and treat it as
 > if it were an E5h.  What happens if you create a filename
 > beginning with ^E?  I don't know.

Very interesting. OK, so I tried E5h as the first letter
of a filename and that works fine. Then (of course) I
tried it with 05h and that just returns a file creation
error. You probably can't do that at all. Or is this
something I shouldn't try at home?

Cheers,
        Ole Juul

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