Clipper directory() and shared folders inconsistency

[mark63]

Hi, I'm using a VM with xp sp3 (home edition) as guest and Win10 Home as host. Under the VM I develop using the old Ca-clipper compiler: the compiler and the sources, together with the files for testing, are stored on the hd of Win10 and I access them by shared folders on the VM. When I use CA-Clipper directory() function to get a list of files stored on a shared folder, the return value (directory() returns an array of filenames) is empty, like in the folder there isn't any file. I investigated deeply and I found that if in the folders there are no more than 8 files the function returns a correct array. Then I copied all the test shared folder, locally on the hd of the VM, and when I launched the program and tested the directory() function, it runs without any problem and returns all the filenames that are stored on the folder, no matter if they are more then 8, 1000, or more. To be sure that it's not a Clipper related problem (maybe with shared folders), I tested the program with WMWare. I exported the Virtualbox VM and then imported in WmWare, created the shared folders (like in Virtualbox) and launched the program to read the content of shared folder: in this case there was any problem and the content of the test (shared) folder was returned entirely. So I think the problem is related to VirtualBox. Regards, Marco