milazzo@RICE.ARPA (Paul Milazzo) (02/26/85)
I apologize if the following bug has already been discussed, but I don't remember seeing it, so: Earlier this evening I used "sq" and "lar" under UNIX to create a .LBR full of SQueezed files, and then shipped it to my CP/M system. When I then used "-q *.*" in NULU 1.1 to extract and unsqueeze all of the files, I was left with a directory full of lower-case file names! One could perhaps argue that the UNIX version of SQ shouldn't store the file names in lower case, but I disagree, since they might be destined for another UNIX system. In any case, I think NULU should put all file names in canonical form before using them under CP/M. Paul G. Milazzo <milazzo@rice.ARPA> Dept. of Computer Science Rice University, Houston, TX
W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Keith Petersen) (02/26/85)
Paul, thanks for the bug report on NULU11. I agree, it should convert the names to upper case - the BDS-C version does that. I'll relay that to the RCPM Sysop Clearinghouse. All is not lost, you can use MBASIC to rename the files by saying: NAME filename AS FILENAME --Keith
NOLAND@USC-ISI.ARPA (Steve Noland) (02/26/85)
Keith, In all of this flurry about the NULU11 unsqueeze function, the users must be sure that they have applied the NULU!!11F1.AQM patch to the original program. It fixes some problems with filenames in the unsqueeze function, plus several others. In that context, last tweek there was a complaint that NULU11 could not successfully unsqueeze the large dictionary file from the new SPELL21X library. I tried it here (H89, Heath CP/M) and had no problems at all. I did, however, pass the bug reports on tho the NULU author, which I will continue to do with whatever appears on the net. Regards, Steve Noland -------
milazzo@RICE.ARPA (Paul Milazzo) (02/26/85)
Steve: I had already applied NULU11F1.AQM (the signon message date now reads 02/03/05), so that's not the problem. I appreciate the suggestion, though. My thanks also to all of the kind people who told me of ways to rename the lower-case-named files. I should have mentioned in my original message that I immediately renamed them with NSWP (kudos to Dave Rand). Paul G. Milazzo <milazzo@rice.ARPA> Dept. of Computer Science Rice University, Houston, TX