wine users - Apr 2001 - Interesting Note

OK, so right, I shouldn't have let Wine be able to write to the Fat32 hard
drive, now I know for next time. The question is, though, why did it do
that? What happened was, I was running notepad.exe in Wine, and I went to
open a text file. Every folder that I browsed through, Wine removed its
contents and placed it into something like $!$!$!$!$!.333, the 333 being the
first three digits of the original folder's name... weird... Is this a clash
between Ext2 and Fat32, or something else? I'm glad at least none of the
data was removed completely...phew!

On Sat, 07 Apr 2001 19:53:49 GMT, "Hello"
<meldell32bit@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote:
>OK, so right, I shouldn't have let Wine be able to write to the Fat32
hard
>drive, now I know for next time. The question is, though, why did it do
>that? What happened was, I was running notepad.exe in Wine, and I went to
>open a text file. Every folder that I browsed through, Wine removed its
>contents and placed it into something like $!$!$!$!$!.333, the 333 being the
>first three digits of the original folder's name... weird... Is this a
clash
>between Ext2 and Fat32, or something else? I'm glad at least none of the
>data was removed completely...phew!
Something like that has been frequently observed by people
trying to run Internet Exploser 5. Are you sure you never did ?
I have frequently tested Notepad 3.1 and Notepad NT without
seeing anything like that.

Gerard