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Re: lynx-dev Dired for DOS (PATCH)
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Dired for DOS (PATCH) |
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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
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> Doug Kaufman
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