[Coco] Tim Lindner or Boisy, os9.exe

[Robert Gault]

Boisy Pitre wrote:

> Roger,

> 

> This sounds like a bug specific to the Windows port, which Robert Gault 

> manages.  Robert can probably chime in here on what the issue may be.

> 

> Regards,

> Boisy G. Pitre

> -- 

> Tee-Boy

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Looking at the source code for os9copy.c, there could be a problem. For 
example
static char *ExtractFilename( char *path )
{
     /* This works for both native file paths and os9 file paths */
	
     char *a, *b;
	
     a = strchr(path, ',');
	
     if (a == NULL)
     {
         /* Native file */
         a = strrchr(path, '/');
		
         if (a == NULL)
             return path;
		
         return a + 1;
     }
	
     b = strrchr(a, '/');
	
     if (b == NULL)
         return a + 1;
	
     return b + 1;
}

All the code dealing with path uses / but Windows uses \. Unless there 
is a conversion somewhere, I'd expect a problem.

I've another issue resulting from the loss of two hard drives earlier 
this year. I can't as yet verify a good compilation of the source code. 
Msys/mingw32 is not fully working and I have lost needed support 
programs for Borland (dial-up complicates this issue.)
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The last working version of os9.exe does just as Roger describes with 
the 248 error after a full path name.