[X-Unix] Re: Unlinking a file... illegal characters?

[William H. Magill]

On 27 Feb, 2005, at 14:53, Stroller wrote:
> No, the firewire drive is FAT-formatted (FAT32?). I think I mentioned 
> that in my original posting, but I appreciate that was a few messages 
> ago; I am unable to delete it from Linux, Windows or Mac OS X.

Aha... I don't know the answer to this... does FAT32 even support 
non-ASCII characters for file names?  FAT32 is an ancient file system 
that pre-dates significant(i.e. wide-spread) use of Unicode?

Which is another way of saying ... sigh ... reformat time!

As for how it got there in the first place ... my guess is that it IS a 
bug / corruption issue. Something happened that executed the "you 
should never reach this" code someplace in some module, which typically 
doesn't generate an error, but just continues -- wouldn't be the first 
time ... :)

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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