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- From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
- Subject: Re: Where do things go when you move them to a folder?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.113448.774@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Dec18.045538.15204@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:34:48 GMT
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- In <1992Dec18.045538.15204@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
-
- >Here's the scenario:
-
- [moves file from drives icon to folder (on desktop?)]
-
- > 4) Now, I go to DOS, and do a dir of the directory, and lo, the
- > file is no longer there. Worse, the file is nowhere on the
- > disk (I used a DOS file find utility, and it was nowhere to
- > be found) So, where is it?
-
- The problem here, I think, is that you're going to DOS. DOS doesn't
- understand HPFS filenames, unless they fit the 8.3 format. The desktop
- folder (directory) does not fit the 8.3 format. Therefore, DOS programs
- won't be aware of files on the desktop, or in folders on the desktop.
-
- Go to an OS/2 window/full-screen, then cd "OS!2 2.0 Desktop" (the quotes
- are required), and do a dir. You should see your folder, and if you cd
- to it, you should see your file.
-
- >Is there no way to have the file be in a folder, and also visible to DOS?
-
- Keep the folder in the drive object, and merely shadow it to the
- desktop, or else shadow the file into the folder. But all this
- rigamerole is only necessary if you want to see it from _DOS_. You can
- see it from OS/2 just fine in any case (from the OS/2 command-line, as
- well as from the desktop).
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