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From:	SickBoy <MnogoMedvjeda AT REMOVETHISbigfoot DOT com>
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Subject:	(Registered) character in a path
Date:	Fri, 9 Jan 2004 23:42:32 +0100
Organization:	Jerba de Maria
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I have a folder on my drive that has a (registered) character in it's 
name (the little R in a circle). When I scanned that drive with 
__file_tree_walk I got an ENOENT when it reached the folder in question. 
I traced the source and I found out that findfirst/findnext can find the 
dir, only it has a regular R instead of the (R). Then when 
__file_tree_walk called findfirst with "d:\\whatever\\foo barR/*.*", 
findfirst returned an error and errno was set to ENOENT. I tried looking 
into findfirst's source but it's all interrupts and I don't know anything 
about that. Could someone explain what's going on here? Could it be 
because (R) is legal in windows but not in dos? How could dos even find 
the dir if that's the problem?

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