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- From: Rick.Schryvers@psycho.fidonet.org (Rick Schryvers)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Missing character questi
- Message-ID: <28657.2AB383F1@psycho.fidonet.org>
- Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 22:20:02 EDT
- Organization: Psycho: The Usenet<->Fidonet Gateway of St. Pete Florida
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- To: rcbaker@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Bob Baker)
- On 09-07-92 Bob Baker wrote to All...
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- BB> While working on converting some VERY old DOS files at work, we've
- BB> discovered an interesting dilemma. When we do a directory listing of
- BB> the files, we see things like:
- BB>
- BB> H FRAME TXT 09-01-84 etc., etc.
- BB> S H HOUS TXT 09-01-84
- BB> .
- BB> .
- BB> .
- BB>
- BB> Our problem comes when we want to copy these files to other disks.
- BB> Whatever character the blank space is in the directory listing, it
- BB> does not get read in the copy program. We see:
- BB>
- BB> HFRAME.TXT - File not found
- BB> 0 files copied
- BB>
- BB> For whatever reason, DOS removes the character that appears in the
- BB> directory, and we are unable to copy our files (let alone read them,
- BB> delete them, rename them, etc.).
- BB>
- BB> Has anyone seen this problem before? Better yet, does any one have a
- BB> solution as to how to fix it?
- BB>
- BB> Thanks for your time,
- BB> Bob
- BB> --
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