Re: [hatari-devel] Maybe a gemdos bug, I don't know

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On keskiviikko 27 maaliskuu 2013, Laurent Sallafranque wrote:
> I think maybe that my directory path (full host path) was something like
> :
> 
> /media/0B14FA201100A/Atari/My_Programs/Beat_Of_Rage/BOR/SRC/DATA/...
> 
> Maybe the full path name contains more than 8 chars. I don't know if
> this can explain that.
> 
> But at least, the last directory was 9 chars length at the time and it
> compiled well under hatari (unix) but not under my Falcon.

What I was wondering, was what the directory name *on disk* looked in
your *Falcon*.  On FAT it cannot be "BIN_RIGHT", so was it "BIN_RIGH",
"BIN_RIGH.T"...?

What created the directory?


	- Eero

> Hope this helps.
> 
> regards
> 
> Laurent
> 
> Le 27/03/2013 18:54, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On keskiviikko 13 kesäkuu 2012, Laurent Sallafranque wrote:
> >> In my program, I have the following :
> >> 
> >> toto_01l:        dc.b    "DATA\CHARS\TOTO0\BIN_LEFT\IDLE1.SPR",0
> >> toto_01r:        dc.b    "DATA\CHARS\TOTO0\BIN_RIGHT\IDLE1.SPR",0
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I load these files with the loader.s rout from DHS (thanks to them for
> >> this code).
> >> 
> >> On hatari, it loads well and I don't have any problem, while on my
> >> real falcon, I get the following message :
> >> 
> >> DATA\CHARS\TOTO0\BIN_RIGHT\IDLE1.SPR not found
> >> 
> >> I think this may due to the 9 characters of the directory, but hatari
> >> and my Falcon don't behave the same here.
> > 
> > I've now written a test program that tries different cases where
> > program gives larger file name than 8+3 characters and in *ALL*
> > cases all TOS versions for 1.02 to 4.04 are able to handle them
> > fine.
> > 
> > Test program, test files and the sources are included on
> > the attached test disk image.
> > 
> > 
> > So, I think the problem isn't that the name you gave was longer than
> > the directory name, but that it was different than the directory
> > name.  For example your directory name was "BIN_RIGH.T" and you
> > tried to find it with name "BIN_RIGHT".
> > 
> > 
> > I'll make Hatari GEMDOS emulation to clip both parts of the file
> > name and give warning about that.
> > 
> > 	- Eero