NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/misc/41501

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!cs.utk.edu!ornl!rm3
From: [e-mail] (MCBROOM R C)
Subject: Re: Interesting WPS Bug
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
References: <Nrc=[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:16:16 GMT
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In article <Nrc=[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>I've run across an interesting bug in the WPS concerning
>files.  Sometimes, for no reason that I can explain, when
>I make a copy of a file from the command line, when I view
>the directory from the WPS, both the copy of the file and
>the original have the same title.  For example, I might have
>a file named v.exe and when a copy is made and called v1.exe,
>the WPS displays both objects as 'v.exe'.  It seems to only
>do this for files which have EA's attached (I'm using HPFS),
>but not all files with EA's behave this way.  Has anyone else
>run across this and is there a rational explanation for why
>this occurs?  Clearly you shouldn't be able to have two different
>objects with the same title in the same folder.
>
Keep poking around in OS/2.  If you do a detail view of the directory you
will see that the data and program objects have both a title reference and
a name reference.  The title is what is displayed with the icon.  If you copy
a data or program object onto itself it will have the same title but a new
name constructed out of the original.  Someone in this newsgroup was asking
about having multiple versions of files as Digital does with its VMS system.
OS/2 uses the name and title mechanism to do just that.  You can use the
settings to configure the copy from WPS to prompt you and ask if you want
to replace the file or store a new version so that you can make the decision
each time.