On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros <fav...@mpcnet.com.br> wrote: > Hi, > > As a complement to the previous post, here is an example of > 'illegal' folders and files. Please have a look at the screen > capture below. I copied the NIC_SCAN folder from disk D: to C:, > so the two panels of the file manager were supposed to be > identical. > > (I am also sending the screen capture as a compressed attachment > in case the unprintable characters don't get through the > internet.) > > In the right panel (D:) are the original files. After copying > from D: to C:, you can see the mess on the left panel. > > This is very intriguing. There is no indication that the files on > disk D: are corrupted. The NICSCAN.EXE program runs correctly, > and the remaining 3 text files can be opened and read. In fact, > the same is true for the 4 files after they were copied to C:. > The problem is all these illegal files that appeared out of > nowhere. > > I forgot to say in the previous post that the dozens of > partitioning and formatting tests were done in about 6 different > hard disks and 2 different computers. This was to rule out the > hypothesis of a faulty disk or motherboard. > > Some general information: > > processor Pentium 166 > memory 32 M > kernel 2039 16-bit (2009-08-01) > mem manager JemmEx > shell 4dos > cache LBACache > ramdisk Shsurdrv > > Regards, > > Marcos > > ÉÍ[1]Í C:\UTIL\ANALISAD\NIC_SCAN ÍÍÍÍÍÍ»ÉÍÍÍÍÍ D:\UTIL\ANALISAD\NIC_SCAN ÍÍ[ > ]Í» > º.. ³<UP--DIR³1980-01-01³01:01ºº.. > ³<UP--DIR³2009-11-04³12:57º > ºso ³<SUB-DIR³2036-01-15³14:35ººnicscan exe³ > 34,352³2007-01-31³16:36º > º ³ 1,591M³2037-11-18³12:43ººnicscan txt³ > 474³2007-01-31³16:56º > ºhe date ² an³ 1,686M³2003-01-00³12:43ººpacket txt³ > 2,570³2007-07-06³18:03º > ºiles are²: ³ 1,559M³1996-01-13³04:02ººpci dbn³ > 547,467³2006-11-02³20:48º > ºle (1:00 ==³ 1,634M³1996-03-05³13:02ºº ³ ³ ³ > º > ºleDate ³ 1,559M³2004-10-18³10:02ºº ³ ³ ³ > º > ºme ³ 1,684M³2025-01-14³06:25ºº ³ ³ ³ > º > ºName ³ 1,621M³2025-02-19³09:58ºº ³ ³ ³ > º > ºnicscan exe³ 34,352³2007-01-31³16:36ºº ³ ³ ³ > º > ºnicscan txt³ 474³2007-01-31³16:56ºº ³ ³ ³ > º > ºode ³ 0³1980-01-01³01:01ºº ³ ³ ³ > º > ºource co de³ 1,858M³2030-11-12³13:11ºº ³ ³ ³ > º > ºpacket txt³ 2,570³2007-07-06³18:03ºº ³ ³ ³ > º > ºpci dbn³ 547,467³2006-11-02³20:48ºº ³ ³ ³ > º > ºrsion ³ 1,559M³1985-00-13³06:25ºº ³ ³ ³ > º > ºtus ³531,226k³2014-08-10³01:42ºº ³ ³ ³ > º > ºÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ16,013,845,360/15ĺºÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄ 584,863/4 > ĺ > º.. <UP--DIR> 80-01-01 1:01ººpci.dbn 547,467 06-11-02 > 20:48º > º 517,056k free bytes on drive C: ºº 471,520k free bytes on drive D: > º > È[ A C D E F * # ]ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼÈ[ A C D E F * # > ]ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÙ
It's hard to read that here because of lots of extra incorrectly-translated characters, but it looks to me a little like something is trying to write long filenames into your directory but not using the correct storage format or method. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
