Date   : Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:16:53 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Watford / Acorn DFS question

Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> wrote:
> in the filename area as part of the filename length - but I can't find any
> spec anywhere that says it's guaranteed for Acorn DFS catalogues to have the
> high bits in the filename cleared, so I don't know how I'm supposed to
 
DFS clears b7 of any filename when writing to the catalogue. It
doesn't clear b7 when reading, so you can do, for instance,
in%=OPENIN("D"+CHR$160+"I"+CHR$160+"S"+CHR$160+"K").
 
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