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- From: gwebster@ugly.UVic.CA (This space for rent)
- Subject: Re: Funny Filenames and Video Weirdness in Task Switching
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.041203.15478@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Keywords: os/2 filenames
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- References: <1992Aug25.215412.13074@ee.ubc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 04:12:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.215412.13074@ee.ubc.ca> tedc@ee.ubc.ca (ted chen) writes:
- >
- >I have a few questions.
- >
- >
- >1) I seem to get filenames with semicolons and numbers appended to them. For
- > example, if I d/l a file into my download directory with filename foo.zip
- > then MOVE it (at both DOS and OS/2 command prompts) to another directory
- > for storage, I get some other copies of this file, of 0 byte size, with
- > names like foo.zip;1 foo.zip;2 foo.zip;3 etc clutterring up that directory
-
- I think this is a function of TE/2. When it finds an existing copy of a file
- you download, it renames it with a semicolon and a sequential number, then
- downloads the new file with the same name. As for your getting a 0 byte size,
- are you looking in the right column? HPFS listings have an extra column of
- numbers (which usually are 0s, that stand for the extended attribute length).
-
- Or is it a function of OS/2? I can't find any mention of it in the on-line
- docs. According to the docs though, the semicolon is a legal character in a
- file name. In fact, you can change their names as you like via the Drives
- icon to names with semicolons or whatever. But it is curious that those
- types of filenames cannot be manipulated via the command line. Maybe it
- should be reported to IBM.
-
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