Re: [MiNT] Odd problem with minix

[Odd Skancke <oskancke@online.no>]

 Hi,

On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Martin Nightowl Byttebier wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Today I ran into something strange.
> On a minix partition I've 4 text files named like this:
> 
> -rw-rw-rw-   1 root     wheel         873 Jun 19 14:18 new-last-month.txt
> -rw-rw-rw-   1 root     wheel        1488 Jun  4 22:30 new-last-week.txt
> -rw-rw-rw-   1 root     wheel        2940 Jun 19 14:33 new-this-month.txt
> -rw-rw-rw-   1 root     wheel         892 Jun 19 14:32 new-this-week.txt 
>         
> The problem is that when I look to the contents of these files with 
> 1st-guide or textview (stringserver) all the files beginning with new-last 
> (or new-this) looks identical. If I for instance view 'new-last-week.txt' 
> it will show me the contence of 'new-last-month.txt'. With other words the 
> viewer show the contents of the alfabetical first file.
> 
> Now if I copie the same files to a VFAT partition the viewer will show me 
> the right contents.
> 
> BTW: I'm doing this on a Hades 060 running freeMiNT 1.15.1, minix v0.71
> 
> What's the problem here?

 The problem, at least with TextView!!, is that it doesn't run in the
"MiNT domain". It runs in TOS domain, which means that only the first 8+3
characters in filenames are evaulated by GEMDOS. This leads to the effect
that when several filenames have identical names in the first 8+3
characters, only the file that was first created in that directory will be
used.

 I was certain I had fixed this in the latest StringServer package
release and had to test.. but its not. A future release ( if any ) will
fix this. The present versions are fixed, so this is no problems for me :)



 Odd Skancke - ozk@atari.org