[File] msdos/device driver regression (visual)

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Sat Aug 28 12:29:06 UTC 2021


Fixed, thanks!

christos

> On Aug 26, 2021, at 5:17 PM, Christoph Biedl <astron.com.bwoj at manchmal.in-ulm.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> commit
> 
>    commit f60fc51b20b21dd46e88c703d7d22a96091a422e
>    Author: Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>
>    Date:   Sun Jul 26 16:48:58 2020 +0000
> 
>        Add missing extensions
>        Add spaces where necessary (Joerg Jenderek)
> 
> assumed backslash expansion was possible in the message field of a magic
> line. But it isn't, and therefore I get
> 
> | FDXMS286.SYS: DOS executable (character device driver\040XMSXXXX0)
> |                                                      ^^^^
> 
> instead of
> 
> | FDXMS286.SYS: DOS executable (character device driver XMSXXXX0)
> 
> The obvious way to fix that was to use trailing spaces instead of \040 -
> something I'd prefer to avoid though.
> 
> Aside, there are already quite a few trailing space in Magdir. I reckon
> not always by intention.
> 
>    Christoph
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