Hi, Two months ago I sent a few messages about file corruption problems with DOSLFN which I had experienced back in 2008. Now finally I could do some more testing. Here are the results.
The test was simple: compressing a couple of long-name files with InfoZip, with help of the File Wizard file manager. This is what I intended to do with DOSLFN, so this is what I tested. After doing that, I ran DOSFSCK (two-pass mode), which found numerous errors. The same kind of problem observed last year occurred again. Damaged files were in folders (apparently) unrelated to the tested files. This is an example of the DOSFSCK screen output: Checking files and directories.../BANC/SEG/COPIAS Has a large number of bad entries. (31/39) /BANC/INSPECAO Has a large number of bad entries. (31/40) ./DOC/AMBI/DIVERS Has a large number of bad entries. (28/67) In addition to damaged files and folders, several undeletable files and folders appeared, with names composed of illegal characters. I decided to run further tests using other file managers, because of what Eric had said: > Note that NDN or FileWizard might cause some troubles when > used in together with DOSLFN etc, you never know? So the file managers Connect and DosZip were tested for file compression, decompression and deletion from archives. This time everything went smoothly, and DOSFSCK did not detect any errors afterwards. The test was repeated a couple of times. The conclusion seems to be that the problem lies with the combination of File Wizard, DOSLFN and perhaps InfoZip; they are somehow incompatible. I'm not asking the FreeDOS team to do anything about it, because this doesn't seem to be a big priority, since it apparently affects only File Wizard. I'm simply reporting the fact. Regards, Marcos -------------------------------- Marcos Favero Florence de Barros Campinas, SP, Brazil 55-19-3231-8194 fav...@mpcnet.com.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
