Richard Munn (aka benjymous) wrote:
>
> --- In vmu-dev@egroups.com, Soeren Gust <sgust@i...> wrote:
> > While looking at my server-logs I noticed that something called
> Planetweb
> > has problems downloading my VMS files from VMI. As for as I know
> Planetweb
> > is the Dreamcast US browser. The problem is, that instead of using
> > "MINE.VMS" it wants to download "MINE .VMS", the name is padded
> with
> > space to 8 chars before .VMS. The European Dreamkey browser works,
> > occording to my logfiles. Currently I have just copied the VMS
> files, so
> > both names are available. My question is: Is there a way to generate
> > VMI files which are compatible between the browsers? I could give
> all
> > my programs names with 8 chars, but that is not really a solution.
>
> I think that the problem here is that DreamKey looks at the name
> field, and for example sees "GAME " (4 spaces padding) and gets
> GAME.VMS (coz it's smart)
>
> however PlanetWeb expects null-terminated strings (if you null
> terminate then dreamkey works too)
>
> I think this is right, anyway (please feel free to correct me!!)

I'm french, and I use DreamKey (v1.0). It has the same problem, the
string has to be NULL terminated. I have made modifications for this in
the VMI generator, and it works well.

Ps. The latest amiga version of the VMI generator, found in your latest
sdk archive (1.7), has endianess problems which prevented it to work
properly. I can mail you the changes I made if you want to.

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Antoine 'MORB' Chavasse / CdBS Software