[Coco] Nitros9 & Mess

[Bill Nobel]

>From: Boisy Pitre <boisy at boisypitre.com>
>Reply-To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Subject: Re: [Coco] Nitros9 & Mess
>Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:52:11 -0600
>
>
>On Jan 29, 2004, at 8:54 AM, Nathan Woods wrote:
>
>>Bill Nobel wrote:
>>
>>>My problem seems to be with copying files to the disks after format.  
>>>Anything I write to the drive no matter what size if it has more than 1 
>>>side all I get is error 242's
>>>
>>>-Bill
>>
>>This is a known bug in MESS.
>>
>>http://bugzilla.mess.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500
>>
>>This particular bug has stymied Robert and I for months and I would love 
>>to enlist the aid of someone that understands NitrOS-9 better than I do.
>
>Nathan,
>
>I just tried the latest development build of NitrOS-9 with MacMESS .70 and 
>did the following commands at the shell prompt:
>
>touch x
>touch y
>dir
>
>The directory showed the files normally.
>
>Using a fresh copy of the disk image on MESS .78 under Windows, I get a 
>'..' entry in place of the x when I do a directory.
>
>The discrepancy in behavior may be related to the different versions of 
>MESS running, or it could be a compiler issue?  At any rate, it's strange 
>that it affects one platform, and not the other.
>
>
>Boisy
>

That is EXACTLY what I get.  It seems the directory entries are shifted by a 
entry when it gets expanded.

-Bill

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