Subj : Beautiful hacks
To   : Ben Collver
From : Bob Worm
Date : Mon Oct 23 2023 20:51:32

  Re: Beautiful hacks
  By: Ben Collver to Bob Worm on Mon Oct 23 2023 10:43:26

Hi, Ben.

 > No, that character displays as a space.

Ah, I got completely the wrong end of the stick. I thought it triggered some weird bug where it just hid the file completely.

I'm sure there's some real nuisance value possible by adding one of those to an innocent looking file name, e.g. CONFIG[0xFF].SYS so that it looked like the file was there in a DIR listing but you would get a "file not found" any time you tried to view or manipulate it...

Quality use of DEBUG there, by the way :)

BobW
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