Re: Trouble uploading two files with the same first 8.3 chars. AllVers
  By: Electrosys to Digital Man on Sat Mar 02 2019 02:18 am

 >   Re: Trouble uploading two files with the same first 8.3 chars. AllVers
 >   By: Digital Man to Electrosys on Sat Mar 02 2019 12:50 am
 >
 >
 >  > What version of Windows are you running? It sounds like Windows is doing
 >  > something weird with short filenames. If you use "dir /x" on those files,
 >  > what do you see? This what I see on the files you uploaded here:
 >
 > Im running windows 7 on an oracle VM that runs in ArchLinux.
 >
 > 03/02/2019  02:03 AM           479,046 GALGOX~2.XM
 > galgox-imaginary_numbers.xm 02/17/2019  07:11 AM            24,255
 > GALGOX~1.XM  galgox-pixieplanet.xm
 >
 > pixieplanet is the one that I uploaded to the board and imaginary_numbers I
 > ftped directly over to the upload folder so I can compare the two. I tried
 > upload the files from a Linux instance of syncterm, but I don't think that
 > will make a different. I tried uploading from windows syncterm as well.

And... on the BBS the short names are reversed?

                                            digital man

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