Hi,

I tried a file splitter and it creates a bat file to rejoin the
sections.

If I split blah.jpg and split it into 4 sections, it creates a bat file
named

blah.jpg.bat

If I click on the bat file, I get an error message "Cannot access the
specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate
permissions to access the file".

This is a standalone XP machine with only myself on the machine.

Oddly enough, if I rename it blahjpg.bat, it works fine.

What is the "dot" between the blah and jpg doing to prevent the batch
file from working?

Thanks

"WaIIy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> Hi,
>
> I tried a file splitter and it creates a bat file to rejoin the
> sections.
>
> If I split blah.jpg and split it into 4 sections, it creates a bat file
> named
>
> blah.jpg.bat
>
> If I click on the bat file, I get an error message "Cannot access the
> specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate
> permissions to access the file".
>
> This is a standalone XP machine with only myself on the machine.
>
> Oddly enough, if I rename it blahjpg.bat, it works fine.
>
> What is the "dot" between the blah and jpg doing to prevent the batch
> file from working?
>
> Thanks

A .jpg file is a binary file. Splitting it into several components
is fine but naming one of them blah.jpg.bat makes no sense.
Batch files are text files, not binary files, and the data in that
split file would make no sense to the Command Processor.

What are the contents of the bat file? Sounds like the programer messed up.

WaIIy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried a file splitter and it creates a bat file to rejoin the
> sections.
>
> If I split blah.jpg and split it into 4 sections, it creates a bat file
> named
>
> blah.jpg.bat
>
> If I click on the bat file, I get an error message "Cannot access the
> specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate
> permissions to access the file".
>
> This is a standalone XP machine with only myself on the machine.
>
> Oddly enough, if I rename it blahjpg.bat, it works fine.
>
> What is the "dot" between the blah and jpg doing to prevent the batch
> file from working?
>
> Thanks

WaIIy <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I tried a file splitter and it creates a bat file to rejoin the
>sections.

>If I split blah.jpg and split it into 4 sections, it creates a bat file
>named

>blah.jpg.bat

>If I click on the bat file, I get an error message "Cannot access the
>specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate
>permissions to access the file".

>Oddly enough, if I rename it blahjpg.bat, it works fine.

>What is the "dot" between the blah and jpg doing to prevent the batch
>file from working?

That's very odd, I can't think of why it should do such a thing. It
should look at the extension (the section after the last dot) and
figure out what it is from that. The original DOS and FAT allowed for
only one dot, but it's certainly easy to put multiple dots in
nowadays.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
(E-Mail Removed)
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:54:40 +0200, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>
>"WaIIy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried a file splitter and it creates a bat file to rejoin the
>> sections.
>>
>> If I split blah.jpg and split it into 4 sections, it creates a bat file
>> named
>>
>> blah.jpg.bat
>>
>> If I click on the bat file, I get an error message "Cannot access the
>> specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate
>> permissions to access the file".
>>
>> This is a standalone XP machine with only myself on the machine.
>>
>> Oddly enough, if I rename it blahjpg.bat, it works fine.
>>
>> What is the "dot" between the blah and jpg doing to prevent the batch
>> file from working?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>A .jpg file is a binary file. Splitting it into several components
>is fine but naming one of them blah.jpg.bat makes no sense.
>Batch files are text files, not binary files, and the data in that
>split file would make no sense to the Command Processor.
>

I didn't explain myself well enough, I guess. The program creates
the batch file so it can be restored.

Again, if I remove the Dot, the batch file works fine.

Maybe read my post again.

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:05:40 -0500, Bob I <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>What are the contents of the bat file? Sounds like the programer messed up.

I'll post the contents, but again, if I remove the dot/period, it works
fine.

The program is this--

http://sirisoft.cloud.prohosting.com.../software.html

File Splitter

blah.jpg.bat Doesn't work

blahjpg.bat Works

It'a not about a jpg, it's about the batch file name.

Tolly.pdf.bat Doesn't work

Tollypdf.bat Works

This file - Tolly.pdf.bat (I split the file into four parts.)

REM Splitter Software by SiriSoft
REM http://sirisoft.cloud.prohosting.com
copy /b Tolly.000+Tolly.001+Tolly.002+Tolly.003 "Tolly.pdf"

Again, if I changer the name to Tollpdf.bat It works great.

Thanks




>WaIIy wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried a file splitter and it creates a bat file to rejoin the
>> sections.
>>
>> If I split blah.jpg and split it into 4 sections, it creates a bat file
>> named
>>
>> blah.jpg.bat
>>
>> If I click on the bat file, I get an error message "Cannot access the
>> specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate
>> permissions to access the file".
>>
>> This is a standalone XP machine with only myself on the machine.
>>
>> Oddly enough, if I rename it blahjpg.bat, it works fine.
>>
>> What is the "dot" between the blah and jpg doing to prevent the batch
>> file from working?
>>
>> Thanks

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:08:24 -0400, Tim Slattery <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>WaIIy <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>I tried a file splitter and it creates a bat file to rejoin the
>>sections.
>
>>If I split blah.jpg and split it into 4 sections, it creates a bat file
>>named
>
>>blah.jpg.bat
>
>>If I click on the bat file, I get an error message "Cannot access the
>>specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate
>>permissions to access the file".
>
>>Oddly enough, if I rename it blahjpg.bat, it works fine.
>
>>What is the "dot" between the blah and jpg doing to prevent the batch
>>file from working?
>
>That's very odd, I can't think of why it should do such a thing. It
>should look at the extension (the section after the last dot) and
>figure out what it is from that. The original DOS and FAT allowed for
>only one dot, but it's certainly easy to put multiple dots in
>nowadays.


I know, it's wierd. Please see my reply to Bob 1 - you can d/l the
program - standalone. It works fine if I remove the dot from the
filename, any filename in the batch file.

WinXP SP2 I'm the only user, standalone pc.

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:29:03 -0400, WaIIy <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:05:40 -0500, Bob I <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>What are the contents of the bat file? Sounds like the programer messed up.
>
>I'll post the contents, but again, if I remove the dot/period, it works
>fine.
>
>The program is this--
>
>http://sirisoft.cloud.prohosting.com.../software.html
>
>File Splitter
>
>blah.jpg.bat Doesn't work
>
>blahjpg.bat Works
>
>It'a not about a jpg, it's about the batch file name.
>
>Tolly.pdf.bat Doesn't work
>
>Tollypdf.bat Works
>
>This file - Tolly.pdf.bat (I split the file into four parts.)
>
>REM Splitter Software by SiriSoft
>REM http://sirisoft.cloud.prohosting.com
>copy /b Tolly.000+Tolly.001+Tolly.002+Tolly.003 "Tolly.pdf"
>
>Again, if I changer the name to Tollpdf.bat It works great.
>
>Thanks
>
>

I'm replying to my own post---

Tolly.pdf.bat doesn't work

Tollypdf.bat works

Tolly.pof.bat works

I think it has something to do with registered file types.

WinXP Home SP2 Standalone

WaIIy wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:29:03 -0400, WaIIy <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>
>>On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:05:40 -0500, Bob I <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What are the contents of the bat file? Sounds like the programer messed up.
>>
>>I'll post the contents, but again, if I remove the dot/period, it works
>>fine.
>>
>>The program is this--
>>
>>http://sirisoft.cloud.prohosting.com.../software.html
>>
>>File Splitter
>>
>>blah.jpg.bat Doesn't work
>>
>>blahjpg.bat Works
>>
>>It'a not about a jpg, it's about the batch file name.
>>
>>Tolly.pdf.bat Doesn't work
>>
>>Tollypdf.bat Works
>>
>>This file - Tolly.pdf.bat (I split the file into four parts.)
>>
>>REM Splitter Software by SiriSoft
>>REM http://sirisoft.cloud.prohosting.com
>>copy /b Tolly.000+Tolly.001+Tolly.002+Tolly.003 "Tolly.pdf"
>>
>>Again, if I changer the name to Tollpdf.bat It works great.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>
>
>
> I'm replying to my own post---
>
> Tolly.pdf.bat doesn't work
>
> Tollypdf.bat works
>
> Tolly.pof.bat works
>
> I think it has something to do with registered file types.
>
> WinXP Home SP2 Standalone

What it boils down to is that the "programmer" did something that they
shouldn't have done. They should have taken the last 3 chars of the file
name not 4.

WaIIy <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote on Mon, 15 Oct 2007:

>I'm replying to my own post---
>
>Tolly.pdf.bat doesn't work
>
>Tollypdf.bat works
>
>Tolly.pof.bat works
>
>I think it has something to do with registered file types.
>
>WinXP Home SP2 Standalone

Hi Wally

I just downloaded FileSplitter and tried splitting a large .jpg. It
created SeptCurrent.jpg.bat and double-clicking that worked fine here
under XP Pro.

I'm wondering: could the problem be caused by some security/anti-malware
program you're running, perhaps? It's just occurred to me because of all
those email nasties that were "double-extension" files,
something.scr.exe etc.

I know it's no comfort but it doesn't seem to be an inherent problem in
the program or in XP.

--
Nightowl