Re: Argosy HD-363N

On Thursday, February 3, 2005, 6:07:24 PM, Tim Hill wrote:

> Well, the plot thickens indeed...

> So DIR shows all of them, which is a good sign. I cannot for the life of
> me think what could make TOCMaker miss folders like that -- both
> TOCMaker and DIR are basically using the same APIs. Are there any
> curious attributes on the folders themselves -- Windows does odd things
> with the Read Only attribute on a folder (not a file)?

The Read Only attribute shows oddly for the folders, but it often does
-- I'm running WinXP, and it shows as a green box instead of a
checkmark or an empty box.  But then if I go look at the files in the
folder, none of them are read-only.  This is pretty normal behavior
for WinXP; folders on my desktop machine do the same thing.

> I just glanced at the TOCMaker source code: nothing jumped out, buffer
> sizes looked ok. One interesting note is that TOCMaker skips "System"
> folders, that is, those that have the System attribute set. I doubt it's
> an issue, but this might be worth a quick check.

No, none of them are System folders.

I'm baffled -- I'll keep experimenting, and please let me know if you
have any more ideas, but at the moment it looks like I've bought
myself a $108 doorstop.  I'd advise people to stay away from this
thing unless someone can figure out how to make it work.

Foo.

  -- Robin