Re: "?" in filename

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From: Robin D. Wilson
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 17:25

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In article <3657@news.cerf.net> jerry@gristle.com writes:
> 
> A Dos disk was inserted into my machine that had a ? in the title.
> The name cannot be changed and the system doesn't recognize the
> folder as a disk. The disk is not mounted. No new disks can be
> mounted. When I try to remove the directory I get a busy disk
> message. I try to mv the directory and I get a can't move directories
> across file systems. Whoa. Help. Anyone.
> 

As far as I can tell this has to do with the version of the DOS format  
command you used.  We have had bad experiences with DOS 3.1, and Norton  
Utilities formats, but DOS 5.0 seems to work fine.  I would guess that this  
is a NeXTSTEP 3.0 bug, but I use DOS floppies so little I haven't bothered to  
report it.

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Subject: Re: "?" in filename
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