CC.DAPHNE@COLUMBIA-20.ARPA (11/11/83)
From: Daphne Tzoar <CC.DAPHNE@COLUMBIA-20.ARPA> I just came across a strange problem. I had a file on our DEC-20, LOGIN&.CMD, which is stored as LOGIN^V&.CMD -- that is, with a Control-V before the special character. I tried to send it to the IBM PC using Kermit, which uses the DOS function call (int 21H) to create a file. DOS complained with the error DISK FULL. When I renamed the file to LOGIN.CMD it worked OK. It seems, therefore, that the disk was not full but rather there is a bug in DOS if there is a non-standard character in the filename. Has anyone seen this before?
GILLMANN%USC-ISIB@sri-unix.UUCP (11/11/83)
From: Dick Gillmann <GILLMANN@USC-ISIB> DOS filenames are only allowed to use the characters A-Z 0-9 $ & # @ ! % ' ` ( ) - _ ^ ~ DISK FULL sure is a crummy error msg for using a bad character in a filename, though.