10 Jun
1998
10 Jun
'98
2:38 a.m.
At 06:38 PM 6/9/98 PDT, Max Eskin wrote:
The other non-file info such as the filename itself,
the date stamp,
attributes, etc. are treated in an incidental fashion. The Amiga
file system, for example, had a "file comment" of about 80 characters
of extra text to describe the file that wasn't always preserved.
This may have been inherited from Tripos.
AFAIK, this is the case. The same with the ? and # as wild card
characters (instead of *, you use #? to indicate an unknown number
of "?")
And then there's the way something like the
effects of Radix-50
(packing three chars into two bytes) has percolated through the
years as three-character filename extensions from RT-11 (or
earlier?) to CP/M to DOS and Windows, which are overused and
abused in many ways.
OS/8 uses 6.2 filenames, packed as two six-bit ASCII values per 12-bit
word. I do not know if ODS-1 (RSX FILES-11) or the RSTS filesystems
precede RT-11, but if I had to guess, I would say yes. IIRC, both use
9.3.
-ethan