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Legacy compatibility reasons, I presume. I know this worked to super-hide files with NT 3.5x/4 and Win-9x or used when copying files by those OS's. And I'm fair
by officialchicken 9y ago
Legacy compatibility reasons, I presume. I know this worked to super-hide files with NT 3.5x/4 and Win-9x or used when copying files by those OS's. And I'm fairly certain that it existed for "temporary" files with MS-DOS 6.x and 5.x too, maybe even earlier version. Are there any MS-DOS 2.x / pre lan-manager pros on HN who know how long this has been around?
- DanBC 9y agoI have an old MSDOS 2.0 manual. ~ is listed as an acceptable character for filenames. Here are some photos of various pages: http://imgur.com/a/E952T http://imgur.com/a/E952T