On 24 Jul 99, at 19:00, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
>Since some hours I am wondering about a phenomena which I can not declare
>and which I cannot repeat. I got a nice cd with two .mov files and a
>complete windows program to let them play. As I am really windows free I
>played them with a shareware program quickview which BTW I may register.
>Looking at the mov files I found them to have identical names and copying
>them with norton confirmed that. The small one could not be copied.
>
>�cleaned mov� 30686�4-14-98�11:41a�
>�cleaned mov� 50631318�4-14-98�11:41a�
>
>The strange thing is that one of them is small and the other rather big.
>Looking further on the cd I found also other files with a double name.
>On the root I found following files.
>
>�autorun inf� 27� 2-24-98� 3:21p�
>�autorun inf� 332� 2-24-98� 3:21p�
>�readme txt� 332� 2-26-98� 3:55p�
>�readme txt� 1415� 2-26-98� 3:55p�
>�start exe� 1780952� 4-14-98�10:35a�
>
>Because they where somewhat smaller as the .mov files I played around with
>these files. Copying these five files (1783058 bytes - its a winblows file
>;-)) I got only three files copied on my harddisk. (1782394 bytes only).
>When I choose all five files to copy I was asked wit both duplicates if I
>wanted to overwrite the file because it was already copied. When I choose
>only three files to copy (it did not matter which of the duplicates I
>requested) both 332 bytes big files would not be copied. Also if I only
>requested one file it did not matter which of the files I choose, the 332
>big file could not be reproduced. How did they manage to let my system see
>ghost files? Somebody with an idea?
I've had an experience with this, before. The problem,when tracked
down, turned out to be that the CD was burned by a Mac. The
small files were the resource forks of the files, as created by the
Macintosh, and were not necessary for the functioning of the CD in
a DOS/Windows environment.
Hope this helps,
Anthony J. Albert
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