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dannagle / PacketSender

Network utility for sending / receiving TCP, UDP, SSL, HTTP
https://packetsender.com
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windows console file copy issue #373

Closed lazna closed 5 months ago

lazna commented 5 months ago

What OS and Version?

Windows 10

Description of issue

Just discovery the issue with copying packetsender binaries from one directory to another. Name of file "libstdc++-6.dll" contain plus sign which is serious issue by using built-in "copy" windows command without filename is doublequoted. Copy comand interprete plus sign as "file combining" operator (https://ss64.com/nt/copy.html). Plus sign issue is NOT described as a problem in documentation.

Its a problem, because it DOES NOT PRINT ANY ERRRO MESSAGE, but files may by changed durring coppying. Today I spent almost two hours to find-out what is wrong :-/

Think about rename of such file(s) please, thank you....

dannagle commented 5 months ago

Hello,

I agree that the non-standard filename is annoying. I don't like it either. Unfortunately, that DLL is used by a lower library and cannot be renamed. I'm sorry that it cost you 2 hours, but I cannot fix this.

lazna commented 5 months ago

Got it. Maybe is a good idea to add notice "when copying files, always doublequote it because of issue with 'libstdc++-6.dll' plus signs and windows 'copy' utility", into a section "Console-only portable Mode" here https://github.com/dannagle/PacketSender

dannagle commented 5 months ago

Good idea. I added a note to the README. Closing this issue.