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Filename trailing dots cut-off
« on: 09 October 2020, 16:03 »

Hi Roman,

MAME 0.225 Software Lists CHDs, pc98_cd.xml

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<software name="toshin2s">
<disk name="toushin toshi ii - soshite, sorekara..." sha1="10ae6ad7d25f19f4af5dc51953c733496b14b5b2" />

Results in "toushin toshi ii - soshite, sorekara.chd".
If renamed according to the XML, clrmamepro insists on renaming it back.
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Toushin Toshi II - Soshite, Sorekara... [folder: toshin2s - size: 0]
wrong name: E:\mamesecret\MAME-Software-List-CHDs\MAME 0.225 Software List CHDs (merged)\pc98_cd\toshin2s\toushin toshi ii - soshite, sorekara....chd [wrong: toushin toshi ii - soshite, sorekara....chd] [right: toushin toshi ii - soshite, sorekara.chd]

I agree, it's a nasty label ;)
I've therefor also consulted MAMEdev to look at the label name (and similar ones).
Is it (to your knowledge) a convention that trailing dots are (supposed to be) ignored?

Regards, NU.
« Last Edit: 09 October 2020, 16:45 by newuzer »
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Re: Filename trailing dots cut-off
« Reply #1 on: 09 October 2020, 18:22 »

I will have a look ;)
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Re: Filename trailing dots cut-off
« Reply #2 on: 09 October 2020, 19:13 »

MAMEdev responded with a fix for the named set.
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/3d7aef469cb6b0e6db423b11bbd3bd22e7d35e8e
They will also add checks to -validate to go through the labels and check for CHDs with extensions or otherwise.

It's still interesting to investigate whether it's correct behavior or not.
I think clrmamepro acts by MAME design/convention, that extension separators (.) should not be part of the (file) label.

NU.
« Last Edit: 09 October 2020, 19:31 by newuzer »
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Re: Filename trailing dots cut-off
« Reply #3 on: 10 October 2020, 00:35 »

I think the correct character in this case would be 'Horizontal Ellipsis' = '…', see: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2026/index.htm
But I'm not sure if that is supported by MAME.

But naturally that depends whether your OS supports it or not.
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Re: Filename trailing dots cut-off
« Reply #4 on: 10 October 2020, 08:45 »

I found the part in the source code already which is responsible for trimming the dots at the end.
Assume it gets fixed for the next version.


I remember why I added it. Actually you cannot create a folder under windows with a "." at the end. You can successfully run a mkdir test. from commandline and you can even make a dir test. but it will appear without the dot and a dir test will do the same.
But you can create files with dots at the end...so I will remove the trimming.
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Re: Filename trailing dots cut-off
« Reply #6 on: 11 October 2020, 19:58 »

Thanks Roman, but...
The requested URL /clrmamepro/binaries/cmpro20201010.7z was not found on this server.
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Re: Filename trailing dots cut-off
« Reply #7 on: 11 October 2020, 20:01 »

because I've just updated the link to today ;)
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