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Re: Xwpe deletes files on mounted DOS drives



On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 08:58:10PM -0400, Dennis Payne wrote:
> Since I maintain xwpe (not the debian package but the program itself), I
> decided to check the bug reports on it.  The deleting of files from
> mounted DOS drives is caused by a bug in the cleanup routine for autosave
> and emergency save files.  It tries to delete <filename>.ASV and
> <filename>.ESV.  So on DOS deleting test.c.ASV truncates to test.c.
> It should be fixed in the next version which I expect to release this
> weekend.

Hmm, why would anybody want to store his source files on a DOS partition?

Anyway - If nobody has the time to take care of this I will make the new
package. 

> Dennis Payne
> dulsi@identicalsoftware.com

cu
    Torsten


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