[Coco] CoCo SDC board arrived and RGB to VGA converters

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

Ops, I think the windows strip them out when converting to 8.3 but the
old ms-dos seemed to accept space. Although virtually any program
would open the file from command line...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/07/09/9825126.aspx

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
<retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The MSDOS 8.3 doesn't support white spaces in the name. The DECB does.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Bill Loguidice wrote:
>>
>>> My CoCoSDC arrived yesterday to and I actually was able to set it up and
>>> run some images. Big shocker for me as I usually don't get a chance to do
>>> that until months after I get something.
>>>
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>
>>> The unfortunate limitation is that it only supports
>>> the 8.3 file naming system and can't see filenames with spaces in them.
>>> That means that some pre-made archives will need some manually tweaking.
>>>
>>
>> Bill, yes the 8.3 requirements can be a little annoying, but the micro
>> controller I used has limited resources and it would be quite difficult to
>> manage.
>>
>> I wasn't aware of a problem using file names with spaces. I will have to
>> investigate that one.
>>
>> Darren
>>
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