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Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
From: David Charlap <david.charlap () marconi com>
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 09:16:31 -0400
David Greer wrote:
I think you are confusing MAC's and DOS here. My recollection is that DOS stored filenames in 11 contiguous characters without the ".". It being assumed that the last three characters were the extension.
No. It is an 8-byte field and a 3-byte field. The fact that these fields are adjacent to each other in the structure does not transform them into a single 11-byte field. Note that when the name is less than 8 characters, the name field is padded with NULLs, and the extension remains stored in the same place (bytes 9-11, relative to the first byte of the name).
Macintoshes did / do store the extension as a separate entity in the structure.
Macs don't have any concept of extensions whatsoever. File type information is stored completely separately and has nothing at all to do with filenames. The system shell (and most applications) do not give users the ability to view or alter the four-byte file-type codes. -- David
Current thread:
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting, (continued)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Hank Nussbacher (Aug 31)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Brian Wallingford (Aug 31)
- RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Christian Kuhtz (Sep 01)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Josh Richards (Aug 31)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Patrick Greenwell (Sep 01)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Adrian Chadd (Sep 01)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Scott Bradner (Sep 01)
- RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting John Fraizer (Sep 01)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting mike harrison (Sep 01)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting David Charlap (Sep 01)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting David Charlap (Sep 01)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Brandon Ross (Sep 01)
- RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Christian Kuhtz (Sep 01)
- RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Christian Kuhtz (Sep 01)
- RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Christian Kuhtz (Sep 01)
- RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Christian Kuhtz (Sep 01)
- RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Christian Kuhtz (Sep 01)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Steve Sobol (Sep 01)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Stephen Stuart (Sep 01)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Steve Sobol (Sep 01)
- RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Christian Kuhtz (Sep 01)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Randy Bush (Sep 01)
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- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Hank Nussbacher (Aug 31)