On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 19:09:17 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > I had an attachment to an e-mail with a Word file named: on line.doc > send by a fellow that uses Win XP. > Before he installed Win XP the word documents with names like that did > have the "space" in the filename replaced by a "_"... the name would > then be: on_line.doc
I had a similar experience but with a DOS installation program that installed a file with a space in its name, possibly as a copy protection measure, as the file could not be copied OR DELETED!!!! At least not with any of the common DOS commands. And for the life of me I can't remember how I did eventually get rid of it, but I did somehow! > Arachne could not handle a name like that. So, I tried to rename the > file with Norton Commander. But :-((( Yes, the problem is to tell NC or DOS the name of the file you want to rename or dlete or whatever. I suspect I may have got around the problem by using the wildcard. > It looks like this is not an Arachne problem but a DOS problem. A space > seems to be a non valid character in DOS file-names. As you will have seen from other correspondence it was an Arachne problem, that it was trying to call a non-existing utility to read the file. > Is this a new M$ trick to get rid of DOS? Yeah, they do this just to because they CAN! and to show how "superior" their later snotware is. Greg -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
