Problem writing to fat hd

[Willy Gardiol]

Ok, i have made some tryes.
I have discovered this:
1) "Save as..." from file menu
2) go to fat32 hard drive
3) type a name (in the log: AAAA)
4) save. It says "The file is alreayd open, Try egain?"
5) say yes and retype a different name (in the log: BBB)
6) it works. but why?

I have done a +file log because the +relay is more than 26mb wide and it is 
not easy to check and send via email.
Does the log means anything to you?
According to me, it is a bit messed up, maybe due to hread syncing not 
correctly. Could be this the problem? Could Windows97 (and other apps too... 
but not notepad.exe for example) uses multi-threads to save files and Wine is 
not able to correctly synch them?

I have found another problem bound to hard disks:
as suggested in vfat.txt i decided to try to crate a shadow for my fat 
partition (please note, it has umask 000 and i am the owner)
but... simply i cant see any link created with ln -s /foo_fat/my_foo 
/shadow_c/my_foo
when in any windows app i open the drive /shadow_c/ i cant see any link 
inside!

what is wrong?

also:
> > > maybe try
> > > wine --debugmsg +file blah.exe &>~/log
> >
> > You can find attached the output... it sayd pretty nothing to me
>
> prova.doc?  It creates it (thrice. but the last is an "open existing"),
> deletes it (twice) but I can't see that it ever tries to write anything
> to it.  Maybe it is not even a file operation it is choking on.  Maybe
> somebody could tell from a trace of when it works (to an ext2 file)
> compared to when it doesn't, but full +relay traces to be sure to catch
> it will be kind of huge.  It takes a windows app a tremendous amount of
> thrashing around to actually _do_ anything.  The error message probably
> means it failed to do something it tried to do between the time you
> clicked "save" and the save was completed.

in fact, i find a 0bytes lenght file after i try to save.
Damn thing...
i think you are right, may it be a problem with > 2.5gb hard drives? i 
remember some windows apps (not very old) had problems recognizing free 
space, they says i have 999,999mb free or 9,999,999 mb free when i had more...


> My mail app fails with "Insufficient memory or disk space" if it is run
> with builtin riched32.dll, but works fine with the native dll.

Strange, i can use bulitin riched32.dll with no problems

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