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case issues with file xfer area #1383

Open uriel1998 opened 3 years ago

uriel1998 commented 3 years ago

//UPLOADALL (at least) is inconsistent with casing - a file ANSVW1A.ZIP was recognized with uploadall, but then reported ansvw1a.zip does not exist.

wwiv commented 3 years ago

as of today, all files need to be lower case

wwivsoftwareservices commented 3 years ago

Does that mean I have to rename like 3000 archive and all the associated internal files?

dunnaway commented 3 years ago

Is there any reason why it couldn't just take the file as is? Ignore case altogether?

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 Does that mean I have to rename like 3000 archive and all the associated internal files?

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as of today, all files need to be lower case

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MorgulWWIV commented 3 years ago

Nice program called Bulk File Rename Utility will take care of converting all files to lower case. I converted all mine before moving them to a linux box.

cwstephenson71 commented 3 years ago

MorgulCian, does it work with/in Linux?

MorgulWWIV commented 3 years ago

MorgulCian, does it work with/in Linux?

I dont know. I had all my transfer section files on my Win 10 computer. I ran them program on that computer, then moved the files to the linux box.

wwiv commented 3 years ago

I used "rename" on linux before:. Here's an example on it: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19807/renaming-files-to-have-lower-case-extensions-with-rename.

That's the immediate answer. in WWIV, we don't have an extra place to hold the filename in the original case, and wwiv expects internally the file to be "XXXXXXXX.EEE" format. where X is name and E extension. Example for foo.zip is "FOO .ZIP".

To check if the file exists, would need to switch from a stat call which is quick to a operdir/readdir and filtering based on a filename match. This would make things like listing the directory O(n) to O(n^2).

A few folks have asked for a new DIR format that breaks with the 4.x compatibility. That'd be possible for a dir by dir basis and if so could likely accomidate storing a few things about each entry.

original filename (larger size, case senstiive) WWIV fake filename in 8.3 format, upper case. attributes, possibly extended description inline. also support an index file that is filename to position, or just since our files aren't massive use jsont.

wwiv commented 3 years ago

To @wwivsoftwareservices No, I believe you are on Win32, and on windows the filesystem is cases insensitive, so foo.zip and FOO.ZIP refer to the same file.