[Coco] 'arc' copy command and Stack Overflow (ERROR #207)

[Allen Huffman]

> On Jan 25, 2015, at 11:14 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> Willard, this makes me wonder why the NitrOS9 repo disks have a directory tree with:
> NITROS9 / 6309L2 / MODULES /etc
> I can access it OK and I can even create such a DIR, but the 'arc' utility will not copy it. I've renamed mine to CC36309L2 so I never have problems.
> Maybe this is something we need to address in the repo builds?


Oh! I bet I know why! Isn't there a system call that validates file names for RBF? I just searched, and found F$PrsNam, but I do not think that was it. Something in RBF returns an error if you try to $Create a bad filename, doesn't it?


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