Re: Directory name of aux is invalid

[Paul Scott]

address@hidden wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden> said:
>
>
>   
> > The names are case-insensitive, and they cannot be
> > used as directory names or the first part of a 
> > filename (the bit before the dot).
> >     
>
> please note, in DOS (and many of its contemporary file systems), what
> users think of as the filename is not actually a ten character field but
> in fact two seperate entitys, the name (6 characters), and a 3 character
> extension.
>   
It's actually (at least in DOS) an 8 character name and a 3 character 
extension and I'm not sure I can agree about the two separate entities part.

Paul Scott