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Re: lynx-dev Dired for DOS (PATCH)


From: dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Dired for DOS (PATCH)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 21:32:30 +2000 (EDT)

> 
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Mike Castle wrote: 
>  
> > If so, what if you try non extended version of those programs (if 
> > available), or perhaps a simple djgpp built program that just prompts  
> > from the keyboard and does nothing. 
>  
> That was one of the first things that I tried. The 16 bit version of 
> unzip has the same problem. What really puzzles me is why doing a rename 
> of any file from lynx fixes the problem.  Clearly something that happens 
> with the rename has an effect here, but I don't know what. 

perhaps something's getting stored wrt the win32 longnames.  I know that
some names start off as all uppercase, and then nt/w95 store the lowercased
version of the name somewhere, _usually_ transparent to other applications.

just a guess.

>                                Doug 
> __ 
> Doug Kaufman 
> Internet: address@hidden (preferred) 
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