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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Subject: Re: Where do things go when you move them to a folder?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.162007.2585@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:20:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.113448.774@netcom.com> xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters) writes in response to a query of mine:
- ...
- >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.
-
- Thanks for the info!! The quotes (& using an OS/2 window) are the ticket.
-
- However, the plot continues. I have set up a drag-n-drop icon for UNZIP.
- I have a directory called C:\TMP, and I copy FOO.ZIP to \TMP, it shows
- up in the TMP icon view; if I drag the icon to the unzip icon, it will
- run unzip (minimized) and the files show up in the TMP icon view.
-
- When I create a folder in \TMP, and move FOO.ZIP to the folder, FOO.ZIP does
- show up in the directory \tmp\"folder name" (seen from an OS/2 window).
- However, the drag-n-drop no longer works. It is as if UNZIP (the OS/2
- 32 bit version, from Hobbes) can't unpack files into folders.
- (Or, at least, folders with funny names...)
-
- This later problem is in fact the real problem. It is how I got started
- on this whole mess.
-
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