Subj : Amiga / WinBinkD File Structures
To   : All
From : Rug Rat
Date : Sun Jun 22 2025 15:49:36

  To give everyone an update.  Bucko is correct, that if you are using WinBinkD with C-Net Amiga, you do in fact need to use the dual directory structures!

  I do not think the reason is a permission issue though.  I believe it to be a bug in the simulation of a hard drive from a Windows Directory.

  Either there is a lag in the deletion of a file from whatever is used to simulate the Amiga's hard drive file table, or there is some sort of ghost left behind for the Amiga to see (Even though the file no longer shows up visually in a directory).

  So when the xxx.xxx.xxx.x.*lo files are deleted by BinkD they disappear from the Windows side, are no longer visable to the Amiga side if you a DIR, but CNET:toss still thinks they are there (becasue they are visable on some level).  So TOSS tries to write to the file, but can't because it really is not there, and errors to prompt.

  At random times my script to create the empty files were also failing, but then somehow just started working again. 

        IF NOT EXISTS xxx.xxx.xxx.x.CLO
        ECHO > xxx.xxx.xxx.x.CLO
        endif

By all accounts this should work and work well,  however with the "ghost" being there, the IF Statement would come back FALSE (because the file system said the file was there..)..  Even though you could not see it on the Windows or Amiga side.

I also think there may be a cleanup routine that runs at some uknown interval, which is why TOSS and the script would just suddently start working again.

I think I will mention this to the WINUae team and see where it goes, but for now not only is BUCKO vindicated, but you should continue doing it his way.

Rug Rat (Brent Hendricks)
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