> 1. In MS-DOS 1.xx filenames were padded with spaces, but extensions
> were inconsistantly padded as follows:
>
> 1. If the entire extension was unused, three spaces were used
> to fill the field.
>
> 2. If at least one character was used, the field was padded with
> NUL (zero) bytes rather than spaces.
>
> 2. According to MicroSoft's own documentation, from MS-DOS 2.00 the
> file system would always pad both fields with spaces where
> required.
>
> I'll agree that systems running MS-DOS 1.xx are probably not in the
> majority, but that's the only variation from that specification that I
> am aware of...
And, any MSDOS 1.xx box out there is probably <386 anyway.
-- Michael
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