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

[Darren A]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:

> 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.
> >
>
>
The problem with spaces in 8.3 file names seems to be that Windows wants to
eliminate them. If you assign a name that contains a space, even if it
otherwise conforms to the 8.3 conventions, Windows produces a mangled 8.3
name but retains the space in a Long File Name entry. For example, "PAC
MAN.DSK" will be changed by Windows to "PACMAN~1.DSK". The CoCo SDC
excludes those files with names containing a '~'.

You can have files on an SD card with spaces in the name if you create them
from the CoCo side. For example, the following command will work:

DRIVE 0, "PAC MAN.DSK", NEW

Probably not a great idea since subsequent manipulation of the file on a PC
will likely mangle the name.

Darren