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From:	"Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have AT havenone DOT cmm>
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Subject:	Re: Bug in findfirst/findnext: mangles certain characters.
Date:	Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:32:14 -0500
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"Robbie Hatley" <see DOT my DOT signature AT for DOT my DOT contact DOT info> wrote in message
news:2PydnQe72P4H_BrWnZ2dnUVZ_vmdnZ2d AT giganews DOT com...
>
> This is broken, because it causes rename attempts to fail,
> because no files actually exist with the altered versions
> of their names given by findfirst/findnext.
>

I'm not sure if this suggestion will help or not.  At best, if it works for
you, it's a work around, not a fix.  For a personal utility I wrote, I chose
to use SFNs via _dos_findfirst and _dos_findnext.  I seem to recall having
problems with findfirst and findnext.  After I've _dos_findfirst/next
returns the correct SFN, I call the LFN API 0x7160 function via DPMI to get
the correct LFN.  At which point, you may be able to use rename() or
_rename() or LFN API 0x7156 function to rename, assuming the LFN API
correctly returns these characters...

Personally, I would like to experiment with this.  I'm not part of the DJGPP
development team.  But, is it too much to ask if you could post an example
that demonstrates a failure?  And, is this in pure DOS or a Windows command
console?  98? XP?  Which DJGPP version? 2.03? 2.04?  Do I need to set a
different code page?  How did you create the names with the problematic
characters in the first place?  Etc.


Rod Pemberton

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