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Re:The structure of the special type of DOS files called dir... by spelunker on Monday February 25, 2019 @02:18PM (#19248501)
E5 is an extended ascii code, so I think 05 is acting as an escape character so that the filename won't be interpreted as deleted in the case the filename actually starts with å.
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