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Old December 29th 17, 03:10 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.mac.apps
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Default Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?

In message XnsA859B16E258BDHT1@xhJI5gJTbKLpQ4Eq6Ez94drHGcwsn 569oeX.T2d Diesel wrote:
Paul news Dec 2017 11:01:28 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:


Can I use é in 8.3 ? Probably not :-) They "hadn't invented
foreigners yet", when they did 8.3 :-)


This might surprise you to learn then...


8.3 will use 'extended ascii' aside from a couple. [g] And, even those,
as long as they aren't used as the first character *can* be used.
AFAIK, You can do the same with LFN based names. How do I know this?
Personal experience. I've done it. Even went so far as to do something
very sneaky and wrote a tiny program that would not only rename
folders/files to 8.3 extended ascii, but occasionally play with the
hidden/system bit settings for them as well. It did a fairly good job
of simulating a 'hard disk crash' to the untrained eye.


However, many many characters will break in SMB, so ig you name a file

"HelloÂ*😅.txt"

it might work fine locally, and it might blow up your
network if you try to share it.

I have some files with French names that are inaccessible via SMB and
cannot be deleted via the network because of the è and/or é characters
in the filename.

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