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0 pointsDylan168076y ago0 comments

Windows filenames basically are bytestreams. But the bytes come in pairs.

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lmm6y ago· 1 in thread

Not really. Certain byte sequences are invalid.

Certain byte sequences are invalid in unix filenames too. So that can't be the factor that decides if they are bytestreams or not.

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