I had an interesting experience this morning while adding some games to my external CF card.
it seems that while HumanOS is happy to allow folder names >8 characters long, you must be cautious with it.
I created 2 folders: 'Populous' and 'Populous2', then wrote a !Start.bat file in 'Populous'. After confirming it all worked, I thought I'd copy !Start.bat from my 'Populous' folder to 'Populous2' - this gave me a curious error basically stating that the source and target cannot be the same(!)
so I entered 'cd Populous2' followed by 'dir' and to my surprise, my !Start.bat file was listed. I ran it and Populous ran (not Populous 2 as I expected).
This lead me to try a few other whacky things out. I've discovered that when Human OS encounters a directory name that is greater than 8 characters long, it goes into a sort of no-mans-land. It seems like only the first 8 characters of a folder name passed into a command are actually validated properly; Human OS appears to find the first match and go with that. For example, I could also enter 'cd populousabcdefghij' and still land in the 'Populous' directory(?). it's only when I try 'cd populousabcdefghijk' that I get "Directory Not Found".
In conclusion, my Populous2 directory is not accessible at all through HumanOS. :-/
It's probably best to keep to 8.3 file/folder names I think.
Hi Dal !
This is not really a bug, but a well known fact which applies to file names as-well. Use TwentyOne if you want long file name support.
TwentyOne v1.36C +14
http://nfggames.com/X68000/Mirrors/x68pub/x68tools/HUMAN/TwentyOne/tw136c14.lzh (http://nfggames.com/X68000/Mirrors/x68pub/x68tools/HUMAN/TwentyOne/tw136c14.lzh)
Keep the scene alive !
Eidis
Yeah, some limitation I would say, wich is not exclusive to HumanOS.
Because of this, I had to rename hundreds of files to 8.3 format to have a CDROM with software I can easily copy to the local hd and create floppy images with mkimg.
Thanks - sorry for being such a noob!
Hi Dal !
On the contrary, sorry for not including this information in the Wiki earlier.
Connecting and preparing a hard drive on SASI machine
http://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=x68000:hard_drive_on_sasi_machine&#chapter_4sasi_strikes_back (http://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=x68000:hard_drive_on_sasi_machine&#chapter_4sasi_strikes_back)
Keep the scene alive !
Eidis