Bug with filenames with the % character

[bzi99]

Hi!

I've found TC 6.01 doesn't know how to deal with files with the % character in them, stopping the user from moving, copying or renaming the file.
Same examples of filenames: slb%252003.txt, oke%20doke, etc.

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[Lefteous]

2bzi99

I cannot reproduce this behavior. It works fine for me.

[bzi99]

2bzi99
I cannot reproduce this behavior. It works fine for me.

Checked again. Still doesn't work for me Maybe the problem it's related to the codepage used by XP? (Note: I don't have this problem in the DOS command line)

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[djk]

I also has no problem (on WnXp Pro PL)

[Horst.Epp]

No problem in WinXp Home SP1 German
using TC 6.01

[petermad]

No problem in Win98Se Danish

[bzi99]

Ops... forgot to tell: the problem appears only when in command line. For instance, typing "move oke%20doke .." doesn't work but F6 will.
(I'm using XP Home SP1)

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[petermad]

I tried it out (under Win98SE):

The commands DEL, COPY, REN and MOVE all worked from the command line with filenames like your examples (slb%252003.txt).

But Sometimes the panels are not updated when using DEL, COPY and REN - you have to press F2 or Ctrl-R to make TC update the panels.

That only happens when when the setting of the screen is set to "window" (in contrary to "full screen") in the file COMMAND.PIF. I can't find any pattern for whether or not TC choses to update the file panels after using REN, DEL or COPY.

Using MOVE is different, because MOVE is not an internal command (internal to command.com or cmd.com) - MOVE is an executable program (MOVE.EXE).

I don't have any panel updating problems in TC using MOVE - and it doesn't matter whether I use "full screen" or "window" in the settings in MOVE.PIF

[ghisler(Author)]

TC uses environment variable substitution on the command line. % may be interpreted by Windows as the start of an environment variable.

[CopyCats]

TC uses environment variable substitution on the command line. % may be interpreted by Windows as the start of an environment variable.

In that case, wouldn't it help if he puts the filename between quotes? Like this: copy "slb%252003.txt" <target>

[jb]

TC uses environment variable substitution on the command line. % may be interpreted by Windows as the start of an environment variable.

In that case, wouldn't it help if he puts the filename between quotes? Like this: copy "slb%252003.txt" <target>

No, it would not help. Windows substitutes environment variables also in quotes. This can be verified easily by the following commands:

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pushd "%ProgramFiles%"
popd
pushd %ProgramFiles%
popd

[bzi99]

In that case, wouldn't it help if he puts the filename between quotes? Like this: copy "slb%252003.txt" <target>

Note that in the XP command prompt, that command *works* (even without quotes), only in TC you have to put escape the % character (slb%%25...).

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