As part of a backup programme I extract a list of all folders on a hard drive and have always suspected that the list was not complete.
With some spare time at the moment I have revisited this and have found that the DIR$ function with the attribute set to 16, 17, 19 or 23 will not return a folder name that contains a period.
Microsoft KB article KB905231 states that a period in a folder name is legal and accessing the folder in DOS works.
If anyone can help with this one I would be obliged.
TIA
Roy
With some spare time at the moment I have revisited this and have found that the DIR$ function with the attribute set to 16, 17, 19 or 23 will not return a folder name that contains a period.
Microsoft KB article KB905231 states that a period in a folder name is legal and accessing the folder in DOS works.
If anyone can help with this one I would be obliged.
TIA
Roy
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