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to: Frank Reid
from: Bob Seaborn
date: 2002-12-09 09:11:00
subject: Possible Allfix Bug

Is the drive larger than 2gb, or at least it's 'freespace' report?

If so, either shrink it, or try loading the TSR '2GBFIX.COM" that's in
your inbound.


 > ==================================
 > =========================================
 > RE: Possible Allfix Bug
 > BY: Barry Blackford (3:774/605)
 > ==================================
 > =========================================
 >
 >BB> Thanks for your suggestion, however, it's not that (I don't think),
 >BB> because I can perform the same operation by the other means,
 >BB> Xtree/Dos, Windows Explorer etc (from the same machine with allfix
 > onBB> it) all other methods have no issue with the rights I have set?
 >
 > It's not a permissions issue here, either.  DOS utilities, such as
 > StupenDOS,
 > work fine to overwrite the existing file.  And this is simpler than
 > Samba to
 > Windows sharing.  (Coincidentally, one of the Windows directories is
 > mounted by
 > smbmount for the ftp server, and NetMgr from the DOS machine
 > stages/moves the
 > outbound into the right directories for me.)  Just something weird in
 > how
 > AllFix does it's copy/overwrite checking.  However, if I run AllFix from
 > a
 > mapped drive on a Windows machine (also running LANtastic, with the
 > target
 > drive mapped as LANtastic), it overwrites without squabble.
 >
 > Frank
 >
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