Subj : Re: addfiles error
To : Dumas Walker
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Mar 24 2024 01:38 pm
Re: Re: addfiles error
By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Sun Mar 24 2024 09:10 am
> >Now I re-read your message and kk4qbn's reply, I think I understand what
> you sa
> >ing: the problem was with the case of the files in the list itself (which
> might
> >ve been created in the days of DOS BBSing). I just committed a fix for
> that. Th
> >nks for the report and patience,
>
> Correct! The filelist had names in all CAPS, like DOS would have treated
> them but, for some reason, the actual names on the CD were all in lowercase.
> I probably was not clear enough about the issue -- the "DOS BBSing" comment
> was about the CD and not about addfiles.
>
> This was with a Nightowl CD. The others I was working with were Simtel.
> For whatever reason (maybe because their ftp sites weren't running DOS!),
> the filelists had the names in the correct case (lower) that matched the
> data on the CD.
Yup, that situation should be handled now by addfiles.js (and "just work").
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