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- From: mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Interesting WPS Bug
- Message-ID: <mortenk.146.726769243@dhhalden.no>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 16:20:43 GMT
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- In article <Nrc=f7_@engin.umich.edu> jwh@citi.umich.edu (Jim Howe) writes:
- >From: jwh@citi.umich.edu (Jim Howe)
- >Subject: Interesting WPS Bug
- >Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 09:01:31 EST
- >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.
- >
- >
- That is nothing compared to the fact that WPS hardly gives any error
- messages. Try dragging read-only files to the shredder, for example.
- I wonder if WPS will tell me if I'm making a backup to a bad diskette?
-