> ] Yes, I'm sure it is, but I don't know if the problem is in the ROM or in
> ] COMMAND2... It's also strange that it doesn't happen ALL the time... As far
> ] I can see, it's happening quite randomly.
> Hmmm. Very strange. Does it also happen occasionally with programs that show
> a directory contents and let you choose the file to process? Because if the
I use Multi Mente very often, but I have seen nothing special. It only happens
with a COPY command.
> problem is with the DOS2 kernel, then it might be that occasionally the 'find
> first' function returns a wrong filename. And that should impact programs
> that show a directory contents as well. As they also have to use 'find first'
> to retrieve the filename of the first file and 'find next' to retrieve the
> filenames for the other files.
Yes, indeed, one'd expect strange first filenames then too. But I have seen
nothing strange. I'll try to pay attention to it from now on.
> Programs using DOS2 functions to show directory listings include:
> multimente, xcopy, modeditor and modplay for turboR, xcc and sme3.
>
> You might test out those. For example by using xcc, multimente or xcopy to
> copy all files in a directory.
Hmm, now that you say it, I can remember that I once had the same error when
copying files with Multi Mente! But I hardly ever do that, because it's so
slow to copy lots of small files with Multi Mente... COPY is a lot faster then.
By the way: this is a WARNING for Multi Mente users: if you have more that 255
files in a directory, Multi Mente will ONLY SHOW THE FIRST 255 ONES!! So, if
you want to delete or copy every file in the dir, you'll miss some! And NEVER
SORT DIRECTORIES OF WHICH YOU KNOW THEY CONTAIN MORE THAT 255 FILES!! That
will go terribly wrong, I think! But there are more bugs in Multi Mente
2.05....
(after having viewed a directory with more that 255 files, the names of that
directory may appear in a dir-listing in another dir too! And with some disks,
you get garbage-files in the dir-listing, although nothing special can be seen
in the directory with e.g. DiskView 2.1. And ofcourse the AUTO SORT function
is totally corrupted!)
Grtjs, Manuel ((m)ICQ UIN 41947405)
PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/)
PPS: Visit my homepage at http://www.sci.kun.nl/marie/home/manuelbi/
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