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echo: mbse
to: Deon George
from: Vince Coen
date: 2019-03-18 13:20:34
subject: Dle creationtion of softlinks

Hello Deon!

Monday March 18 2019 01:20, you wrote to me:

 > I know - but my filebase areas is a mess.

 VC>> In any event we must maintain the dos 8.3 standard just on case,

 > As I posted earlier, it needs work (IMHO it is broken). I have no
 > problem supporting DOS in addition to Unix/Linux - in fact I welcome
 > it. But as I posted previously I think it needs work.

I have now reread your mail and yes that bug has been there a very long time.

A bit of history : files coming through filegate are all as standard 8.3.

This way mbse can deal as needed but the issue as far as I remember is when 
non standard
file names come through it does a poor job of converting the format for Linux 
when the
input file name is not confirming to dos std (8.3).

Are these files from other sources i.e., you downloaded them and hatched  them 
etc ?
As this scenario is where I see this problem so just have to remember to name 
them
correctly.

Vince

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