From: "Peter Cassidy" <peter DOT cassidy DOT ps AT rocksoft DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 9$$DJREN.$$T Rename bug?
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 09:44:35 +0930
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> > Occasionally (and seemingly at random) I end up with the file
> > 9$$DJREN.$$T floating around.
>
> Is this plain DOS or Windows?  If it's Windows, the temporary file's name
> should be 9$$djren$$.$$temp$$.  If it's plain DOS, and you don't have
> some kind of LFN TSR loaded, such temporary files should not be produced
> at all.
>
Plain DOS. I have two versions of the program, depending on whether LFN is
active. For LFN I use Haftmann's DOSLFN.COM. I don't know which version I
was running at the time.  I will record it next time.

> It's some kind of bug.  Please try to find a sequence of actions that
> consistently causes such files to be left around.
>
Ok, I'll pay more attention.