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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:00:01 +0100
From: Mariano Alvarez =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez?= <malfer AT teleline DOT es>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: djgpp <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Scopy 0.2 (beta)
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Eli Zaretskii escribió:

> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Mariano Alvarez =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez?= wrote:
>
> > SCOPY is a copy utility who takes care of short file names too on W9x.
> > His main purpose is to serve to migrate your hard disk (using W9x) to a
> > new big one using this simple procedure:
>
> It seems that some special cases aren't handled.  For example, the
> program assumes that any short file name with a numeric tail must have
> 8 characters in its basename.  This is not true for file names like
> ".emacs" which have an SFN "emacs~1".
>

Thanks, I will try to fix it.

>
> Also, if numeric tails are disabled, the program might fail for files
> whose short names don't have numeric tails.

This seems possible to achieve, except if numeric tails are enabled and some
files were created with numeric tails disabled.

Regards, M.Alvarez



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