Re: wrklnk showing a file on windows server, but ls does not

[Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

I seem to remember having a problem similar to yours some years ago. In my
case the problem was that the file had some"non-standard" characters as
part of its name.

A rename was enough to get the file accessible again.

HTH,

Luis

Sent from my Moto G phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On Aug 27, 2016 13:59, "tim" <iseriesstuff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a weird situation. I got a complaint that a utility i wrote to
> display the content of a windows server folder was not working. I did a
> wrklnk on the location (/qntc/....), and was able to see the file name.
> when i put a 5 to display it, it said "object not found". I then used
> windows explorer to view the folder. The file is there and im able to open
> it, but i also noticed there is a strange value thats part of the file
> name. When i use wrklnk to view the name, it shows a reverse image box in
> place of the special character.
>
> So i then tried to view the folder using qsh ls command. when i issue the
> command, it doesnt return anything. yet i know the file exists.
>
> has anyone run across this issue before? im not sure why wrklnk would show
> it where "ls" would not. Im sure under the covers they are difference
> processes used to display the content.
>
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