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From: erics@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Eric Schlegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Finder bug with ./ files?
Keywords: Finder, bug
Message-ID: <17567@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 2 Dec 89 15:35:36 GMT
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Reply-To: erics@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Eric Schlegel)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <5169@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> stuart@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (S. D. Ericson) writes:
>I had a finder crash the other day while copying files from
>my harddisk to the floppy drive.  I finally traced it down
>to files with names that began with "./" .  If I copied
>a file with that prefix, the progress bar would come up,
>show progress in reading the file, then finder would crash
>as soon as it put up the notice about writing to the floppy.
>
>Has anyone else had this problem?

This is a known feature (??) of the Mac. A file that starts with a dot is
assumed to be a driver resource, and if you try to open it, the system
tries to open a driver in the system file. and BOOM...

You just have to not name files starting with a dot.

-eric
eric.schlegel@dartmouth.edu