Behavior of the for-else construct

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2022-03-04 08:38:52 -0600, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2022-03-04 11:55, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > In MS-DOS, it was perfectly possible to have spaces in file names
> 
> DOS didn't allow space (0x20) in filenames unless you hacked it by
> hex-editing your filesystem (which I may have done a couple times).
> However it did allow you to use 0xFF in filenames which *appeared* as
> a space in most character-sets.

I may be misremembering (it's been 30+ years), but I seem to remember
that a simple fopen("with space.txt", "w") in Turbo C would create a
file with a space (actually called "WITH SPA.TXT", because upper case
only and 8+3).

It was a bad idea to do this, though, because there was no way to
manipulate such a file from command.com (You'd have to write another C
program).

        hp

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