Re: [MacPerl] Re: OT dot files

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 20:30 +0000 1/12/99, Bart Lateur wrote:
> THis isn't as farfetched as you might think. I noticed that one of the
> problems that MacPerl has in opening files on a DOS diskette, is because
> the PC insists on making the default diskette name with embedded nulls.
> So, if it looks like a diskette is called "disk", it might very likely
> be "d\0i\0s\0k\0".

Hmmm...looks a whole lot like byte-reversed Unicode.  Since Microsoft 
bytes are backwards [ ;-) ], that makes sense.

   --John
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