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- From: rcbaker@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Bob Baker)
- Subject: Missing character questions....
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:00:41 GMT
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- While working on converting some VERY old DOS files at work, we've
- discovered an interesting dilemma. When we do a directory listing of
- the files, we see things like:
-
- H FRAME TXT 09-01-84 etc., etc.
- S H HOUS TXT 09-01-84
- .
- .
- .
-
- Our problem comes when we want to copy these files to other disks.
- Whatever character the blank space is in the directory listing, it
- does not get read in the copy program. We see:
-
- HFRAME.TXT - File not found
- 0 files copied
-
- For whatever reason, DOS removes the character that appears in the
- directory, and we are unable to copy our files (let alone read them,
- delete them, rename them, etc.).
-
- Has anyone seen this problem before? Better yet, does any one have a
- solution as to how to fix it?
-
- Thanks for your time,
- Bob
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