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Article #8738Re: Finder bug with ./ files?
From: Eric Schlegel
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1989 15:35
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1989 15:35
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In article <5169@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> stuart@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (S. D. Ericson) writes: >I had a finder crash the other day while copying files from >my harddisk to the floppy drive. I finally traced it down >to files with names that began with "./" . If I copied >a file with that prefix, the progress bar would come up, >show progress in reading the file, then finder would crash >as soon as it put up the notice about writing to the floppy. > >Has anyone else had this problem? This is a known feature (??) of the Mac. A file that starts with a dot is assumed to be a driver resource, and if you try to open it, the system tries to open a driver in the system file. and BOOM... You just have to not name files starting with a dot. -eric eric.schlegel@dartmouth.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!erics From: erics@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Eric Schlegel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Finder bug with ./ files? Keywords: Finder, bug Message-ID: <17567@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 2 Dec 89 15:35:36 GMT References: <5169@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: erics@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Eric Schlegel) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 18