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From: kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP 1.04 bug (someone check v1.1)
Message-ID: <25484@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 25 Mar 88 07:14:30 GMT
References: <4093@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Lines: 51
Summary: some good news, and some bad ...

In article <4093@cup.portal.com>, DMasterson@cup.portal.com writes:
> Admittedly, this is a minor bug.  It has to do with a difference in the
> RENAME command from AmigaDOS to ARP.
>
> [ ... ]
>                      The AmigaDOS RENAME command allows you to rename a file
> from lowercase to its uppercase equivalent or vice versa with no problem.  The
> ARP version of RENAME complains (probably because it thinks you're trying to
> rename a file to itself).  I've run into this bug with ARP v1.04 and was
> hoping someone would check it out with (and fix it for) v1.1.

The ARP v1.1 rename command works the way you want it to.  If the file is on
a floppy, or in vd0:.  It does NOT work this way if the file is in ram:, but
it doesn't complain either ... just doesn't *do* the rename.  One of the subtle
differences due to the ram-handler, I suspect.

BTW, the Dillon/Drew shell's builtin rename command works in *exactly* this
same way.

WRT the AmigaDOS rename ... I dunno.  I do know that in my copy of The AmigaDOS
Manual (Bantam), it specifically says, "[it] will not execute if the only change
is the 'case' of one or more letters".  This is the old version of the Manual;
it may not say that in the v1.2 copy.  Did CBM change the rename command in 1.2?

Back in the dim past (before vd0:), I did most of my work in ram:.  To avoid the
renaming limitation, I just used an alias (or macro) to first rename to an
intermediate name.  Before doing this however, I had experienced some "random
Guru's", which (when they did happen) only seemed to occur shortly (within a
dozen or two commands) after having tried to "recase" a file name.  After
going to the intermediate filename strategy, these crashes stopped hapening.
Could have been a coincidence, I suppose . . .


>                                                                BTW, the Aztec
> 'ls' command sorts a directory listing as UPPERCASE then lowercase alphabetical
> -- I wish more programs did it this way.

Yes.  And the Manx "ls" sorts filenames into columns, adjusts the number of
columns based on filename lengths, and shows directories in a different color
(thanks, Jim).  Now if it just had a few more of the useful flags.

/kim



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