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Filenames can use all 256 different characters, and you can use User-numbers from 0 to 254, except &E5 (this marks a deleted file). If you erase a file with is erased under FutureOS, this file is not only shifted to User &E5, it will be being completely purged from the directory. If you erase a bunch of files, you will see is deleted the improvementbecomes obvious. FutureOS renames and erases files video oriented, it’s very comfortable and fast, because the buffered directory is only written once to disc(? - meaning not clear).Furthermore you one can type show files on-screen (scroll up and down), print files, print directories, rename files (user and name). You can use lower case letters if you want, as mentioned before. The name of a typical program is “B00:ScreenSaver” for example. To be honest, you really don’t see the “.“ in the file-name, that’s more beautiful.You can type a file and you can show the file-header. When typing a text-file one can define columns and lines of a window in which the text should be presented (you overscan can use overscan if you like thatbe used). Well, when When looking at file-headers you can look at the file-header of a normal AmsDOS file or you can display the icon-like file-header of a FutureOS programcan be displayed. A An AmsDOS file-header has 128 bytes, but only few bytes are used (loading-address, file-length, start-address…). Under FutureOS this 128 byte file-header is expanded, and every byte is used. The FutureOS file-header has two advantages: A file has now a 24 Bit length and can have a physical RAM select. Therefore a file can be defined to be loaded everywhere in the external RAM. Another feature is the fact that a FutureOS file-header can contain a graphic-icon, a text-icon or a short description of the file. But FutureOS can still work with old AmsDOS file-headers.