mitsu@well.sf.ca.us (Mitsuharu Hadeishi) (02/21/90)
There are a couple bugs in the OS/2 1.2 update which I have found and which others have reported on BIX. I have reported these bugs to IBM and Microsoft but I felt I should mention them here with the approrpriate fix. The problem reportedly occurs on systems that boot from a FAT partition but have HPFS extended partition(s). The problem is most noticeable in the File Manager which does not operate reliably; it intermittently fails to open directory windows and puts up a number of spurious error messages. The bug is serious enough to prevent usage of the File Manager under the 1.2 update. There are other problems relating to case sensitivity: under the new update filenames can be stored as upper or lower case. However, the File Manager does not recognize ".txt" as being the same as ".TXT" for example. Thus the file is not displayed with the correct icon, and double-clicking on the file does not bring up the correct editor. There is no workaround, as the File Manager refuses to add a lower-case version of ".txt" as an association to the text editor, claiming that it is "already associated". I have noticed intermittent problems where associating an icon with an executable does not work. This seems to occur when you have already done several associations. This problem occurred also in the pre-update version of 1.2. The most serious problem is the first one: the inability to open File Manager directory windows, and various other crashes, etc. associated with using the File Manager in the update of 1.2 under the conditions I mentioned. After some investigation I isolated the problem to the HPFS.IFS driver; the workaround is: Replace the HPFS.IFS update driver with the original HPFS.IFS driver for 1.2. This fixes the File Manager directory-window and file-manipulation problems; it does not fix the case-sensitivity problems. Mitsu Hadeishi Open Mind mitsu@well.sf.ca.us (213) 532-1654