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From:	"Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date:	Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:56:53 +0300
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Subject:	Re: Announce: LBInstDJ the DJGPP installer v0.2
CC:	Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
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On 8 Apr 99, at 12:49, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> 
> > enable NameNumericTails=1
> > create file foo.bar1 in some directory and write something there
> > create file foo.bar in some other directory ,write something different there
> > try to copy foo.bar to first directory with Win9X apps (eg. Explorer, FAR) and
> > 	foo.bar1 will be smashed (no DJGPP apps used)
> 
> A known problem; in fact, I described it in another mail in this thread.
> 
> However, no Windows program does such things.  It is obvious that once 
> you know about the problem, you can simply devise a way to use any 
> program to reproduce the bug.  But I'm assuming that people won't do that 
> in their right minds.

Sorry for example not directly related to DJGPP but I'll including it:

I had 3 images of Earth surface from satellite:
	j-36-122_3.bil
       j-36-122_4.bil
       j-36-122_5.bil
each for different color layer. With some DJGPP (written by me) program I merged 
them (all 3 layers in a single file) into j-36-122.bil. As the result one of the original 
files was overwritten if NameNumericTail=1. I think this is rather good example 
where we have real data corruption related problem. I had to workaround it by 
writting output file in a different directory. I think that is rather uggly workaround.

Therefore I still think best would be enabling NameNumericTails=1 when 
installing DJGPP and disabling it after that. 

Andris

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