'ls' on MS-DOS disks (was Re: MS Tools - WRITE and read MS DOS disks (long))

[taob@r-node.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <1993Oct3.180456.10492@msuvx1>, ustai@msuvx1.memst.edu writes...
> 
> It also works great with the floptical drive.  Also, he was very
> responsive to user comments, two days after I wrote to him about adding
> a switch to Mformat, he posted the new version to cba2.

    Yep, mformat 1.1 seems to work quite well now (although I've only
used it twice).  Now if only he'd make gmcopy default to binary mode.  :)

> One thing little conflict/bug that I've found was that when you do a
> "ls" in GNO of a MS-DOS disk (if you wrote to it using gmcopy), there
> will be an extra file that has weird length (billions of bytes used) and
> has the same name as the last file you copied over.  The original file
> still works, you just have an extra name.  However, I think this is more
> of GNO's fault than MS-DOS Utilities' as it doesn't appear under the
> included command shell or in Finder.

    Yes, I reported the same bug to Peter.  It does seem now that the
fault lies in GNO's ls (followups directed to csa2.gno).  Both mdir and
the MS-DOS FST from the Finder correctly read the disk, as well as a
real PC running MS-DOS.
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