- Strange Windows behaviour

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:36:34 -0500

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Harro,
That seems to have done it!
I added /o and also quoted %1 ("%1") so thank you very much and to the
rest of you for suggesting it was the form of the name that was causing
the problem.

Best regards,

Doug Danforth

H. v. L. wrote:
>> Yes - with Windows NT. And sometimes it opens
>> with a 'DOS' 8 uppercase character name rather
>> than the proper full case sensitive name. Can't
>> isolate what conditions make it happen.
>>
>
> Windows has downward compatibility back to DOS. Thus lower or upper
> case letters are treated equal - or not. So, even if you respect 8+3
> filenames it depends on your Windo(w)s settings how they are stored in
> the hidden filename (on disk you still have 8+3 names, something like
> abcdefg~1.ext).
> I believe some of the loading "miracles" will disappear if you do the
> following:
> Open Windows Explorer, go to Tools/Folder Options.../File Types; check
> the settings for ODC files. In the 'Extended' dialog highlight option
> 'open' and check the associated command; it should read like this:
> "E:\Programme\Informatik\BlackBox\BlackBox.exe" /o "%1" [In case you
> see some more or less unreadable characters in front of the E: or
> behind .exe or around %1 - these are (double) quotes, HEX 22X]. In this
> the quotes are the essential part(s), they tell windows to look up the
> complete path and filename(!) not only the abbreviated system entry
> from FAT(??) whatsoever.
> Hope this will help!?
>
> Regards
> Harro
>
> --- BlackBox
> --- send subject HELP or UNSUBSCRIBE to blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
>
>

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