Win 7 32bit. No VM required.
From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx [mailto:xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Troop
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 5:38 PM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: DIR not working right
Harry, you don't say which platform, in this instance, you're running Xy4 from. I had a similar problem when I ran Xy4 under VirtualBox using either W2K or XP as the intermediary. If it hadn't been for that, I would have stayed with VirtualBox. The problem doesn't exist under VMware. I have not yet filed a bug report with VirtualBox.
At 28/05/2014 01:28, you wrote:
Here’s one for puzzle-solvers. I have a directory C:\DB\XFR which has various files in it, e.g, T.PGM.
Xy can deal with that directory, and that file, in most every waycd to it, etc.but it cannot do the DIR command (successfully) if I give the full path:
DIR C:\DB\XFR\T.PGM gives “File not found.”
DIR C:\DB\XFR gives 0 files found
DIR C:\DB shows all the files, including
XFR
This behavior occurs regardless of the directory I’m logged into.
But if I log into C:\DB\XFR and do
DIR T.PGM
it finds it. And while in that directory DIR *.* works normally.
So, prepending the path makes DIR fail . . . but only for THIS directorye.g.. while logged into C:\DB\XY I can successfully do DIR C:\DB\XY\*.* and DIR C:\DB\XY
Incidentally I checked the ATTRIBs and even forced them to be –H, and I renamed the directory (from _XFR), all to no avail.
One more tidbit. If I shell to DOS from Xy, everything is hunky dory, until I exit back to Xy.
Help appreciated.