Subj : Re: addfiles error
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Mar 24 2024 13:38:25

  Re: Re: addfiles error
  By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Sun Mar 24 2024 09:10 am

 > >Now I re-read your message and kk4qbn's reply, I think I understand what
 > you sa
 > >ing: the problem was with the case of the files in the list itself (which
 > might
 > >ve been created in the days of DOS BBSing). I just committed a fix for
 > that. Th
 > >nks for the report and patience,
 >
 > Correct!  The filelist had names in all CAPS, like DOS would have treated
 > them but, for some reason, the actual names on the CD were all in lowercase.
 > I probably was not clear enough about the issue -- the "DOS BBSing" comment
 > was about the CD and not about addfiles.
 >
 > This was with a Nightowl CD.  The others I was working with were Simtel.
 > For whatever reason (maybe because their ftp sites weren't running DOS!),
 > the filelists had the names in the correct case (lower) that matched the
 > data on the CD.

Yup, that situation should be handled now by addfiles.js (and "just work").
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