DIR not working right

  • From: "Harry Binswanger" <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 20:28:25 -0400

Here's one for puzzle-solvers. I have a directory C:\DB\XFR which has
various files in it, e.g, T.PGM.
 
Xy can deal with that directory, and that file, in most every way-cd to it,
etc.-but it cannot do the DIR command (successfully) if I give the full
path:
 
DIR C:\DB\XFR\T.PGM gives "File not found."
 
DIR C:\DB\XFR  gives 0 files found
 
DIR C:\DB  shows all the files, including 
XFR    <DIR>
 
This behavior  occurs regardless of the directory I'm logged into.
 
But if I log into C:\DB\XFR and do
 
DIR T.PGM
 
it finds it. And while in that directory DIR *.* works normally. 
 
So, prepending the path makes DIR fail . . . but only for THIS
directory-e.g.. while logged into C:\DB\XY I can successfully do DIR
C:\DB\XY\*.* and DIR C:\DB\XY
 
Incidentally I checked the ATTRIBs and even forced them to be -H, and I
renamed the directory (from _XFR), all to no avail.
 
One more tidbit. If I shell to DOS from Xy, everything is hunky dory, until
I exit back to Xy.
 
Help appreciated.

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