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Lcopy: file corruption case.

Anonymous — Tue, 08 May 2007 04:28:25 -0000

Just documenting a corruption case.

(know its a generally known issue with (possible) bad(system) disk content.)

1. While copying files from a bunch of old 720k Apricot(F1) disks. (dos2.11)
2. Corruption only seems to happen to one file in a copy run. (in this case at leased)
3. Corruption consists of one sector, for witch the original content is replaced with Lcopy's output.
(...VOICE.EXE..59 file(s) copied..Flushing cache...[00], until end of sector.)

Copy done under “ms virtual pc 7”
with dos7(98se) boot. (virtual hard-disk)
Active: smartdrv + APEDRIVE(apricot disk support util)

Firm.com disk image's available if needed. (direct “virtual PC” compatible)

LDIR trailing backslash and quote bug

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:38:12 -0000

- LDIR "D:\My Files\" does not work as expected. Leave away the last backslash. Dos seems to convert \" into a quotation mark (") at the very end.

I hit this problem recently. It is caused by the C startup code that parses the command tail into argv []. I had to get the entire tail as a string and parse it myself to avoid the problem.

Spaces in short names not supported

Yanker — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 21:17:59 -0000

DOS allows spaces in short filenames.
However Windows does not create them but tolerates them.
(Bug moved from www.odi.ch)