Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!inesc!ajr
From: ajr@inesc.UUCP (Julio Raposo)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: 4DOS problems? (Rather long)
Message-ID: <224@inesc.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 90 17:41:09 GMT
References: <7874@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: INESC - Inst. Eng. Sistemas e Computadores, LISBOA. PORTUGAL.
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In article <7874@lindy.Stanford.EDU>, LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
> Secondly, I have noticed that occasionally my directories get a
> little corrupted. I just performed the following commands:
> 
> move cm.doc sent/cm0205.doc
> move gg.doc sent/gg0205.doc
> 
> The commands were acknowledged, and the files were moved, but the
> names in the SENT directory were cm0.doc and gg0.doc. I have also
> had this sort of name truncation occur on other occasions.
> 
	Just thinking:
	Doesn't it look like DOS4 is truncating the pathname to 8 characters?
	It looks that if the new path were sentinel/gg0205.doc you would
  end up with a file called .doc ...

				Antonio Julio Raposo

			  (ajr@willy.inesc.pt - LISBOA - PORTUGAL)