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May 1997, Week 5

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Paul Christidis reported that LISTFILE,3 shows a different format for
Posix-domain files than for MPE-domain files and Lee Gunter confirmed
this.

I don't remember the reasoning, but I _do_ remember that this was
discussed a year or so ago on this forum - it's a feature, not a bug.

I vaguely recollect that this was needed for backwards compatibility,
where older applications that looked for filenames would not check
lines with a blank in column one and not get faked out by the Posix
names.

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Randy Medd
Telamon, Inc.

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