Subj : Testing
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Deon George
Date : Mon Aug 19 2019 12:56:50

  Re: Testing
  By: Sean Dennis to Deon George on Sun Aug 18 2019 09:38 pm

 SD> Did you toggle the "8.3 filenames" switch on your links involved? 

I dont think I played with that switch too much - I'm not sure what it was 
supposed to do. It may very well be the causes of my problems.


My main problem was with incoming long file names to my system.

If I received:

* longfilename_for_rasperry_pi.zip, and
* longfilename_for_windows.zip

MBSE would convert the name to:
LONGFILENAME (12 chars - not 8.3 format)
softlink longfilename_for_rasperry_pi.zip to it
softlink longfilename_for_windows.zip to it.

And whichever one it did first, I would loose the other one.

Here is one example in my filedir:
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi spi  238387 Oct  2  2018 TDFSTUDIO110
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pi spi      12 Nov  8  2018 tdfstudio110_l32.zip -> TDFSTUDIO110
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pi spi      12 Nov  8  2018 tdfstudio110_rpi.zip -> TDFSTUDIO110

That file is either for a rasperry pi, or linux 32 bit on intel.

It also didnt handle the tic files very well - barfing when it was trying to 
delete/move it (cant remember the details now, it was something along the lines 
of trying to the unlink on the 12 char name, when the file on disk was the 
original long name. Or it was trying to rename the file to move to badticdir, 
but was trying to move it with its created 12 char name.

Its messy, so I had a mix of files in inbound, badtic and inbound/uplink/tmp...

:(
....лоег

.... You've got to miss them to score sometimes.
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