Dear Janusz Cyran:
"Janusz Cyran" <lobster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:fstvba$ilj$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> As I have only a nondirect access to the computer (I
> must ask a person which is given the permission to
> access it) I did not get all the information I asked for.
>
> Nethertheless I have got some more information.
>
> 1. Running command.com /c dir just opened the
> window, listed the filenames quickly and closed it.
> 2. Running command.com opened the usual window
> (Microsoft (R) Windows DOS).
> 3. When the user tried to change the catalogue (in
> command.com window, using cd command) to the
> one where the program resided, he couldn't do it - he
> got the message that the catalogue did not existed,
> although he used the proper short name for it.
Command.com is futzed. It may be a carryover from a previous
WinDoze version?
> 4. When the user tried to change the catalogue
> (using cd command) to the one where the program
> resided, but in cmd session, he was able to do it.
> 5. When the new catalogue was created and the
> program was copied into that catalogue, the
> problem disappeared.
Eeeek!
> I am perplexed - it is as if the catalogue was
> damaged. But why the 32-bit program ran without
> any problem?
May be volume (disk) size. May be an odd character in the short
file name. I was able to embed some strange ones using qbasic,
that could only be accessed using qbasic. Could not even erase
the file / directory.
> Anyway now the program seems to run just
> as it should.
If in doubt, I blame Bill Gates. Keeping fingers crossed.
David A. Smith
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