From:	"Ilya P. Ryzhenkov" <ilya AT spy DOT isp DOT nsc DOT ru>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject:	Re: Beware : JPTUI 3.6 has bugs with networks
Date:	Mon, 18 Nov 1996 18:15:08 -0800
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Jean-Pierre Delprat wrote:
> 
> Hello, everyone.
> 
> I'm terribly sorry but the version I've released a few days ago (a
> little too quickly, I'm afraid) has problems with network drives
> (It's not very easy to test this because I don't personally have a
> network).
 
> When you use it in a network environment, some local drives are not
> detected (C:...). Moreover, when you select ".." in the root
> directory of a network drive, the program hangs.

Hmmm... This all talks about problems with network drives force me to
remember one bug (or feature) of particulary Novell DOS requester. I
don't know if it is same in other shells but i think it'll be usefull
never the less.

So. let's imagine you have server `test' and a volume `sys' on it.
and you map it to the drive H: like
 map root h:=test\sys:\
But DOS requester supprot true names, so if you ask for a true name of a
file H:\test.exe you'll get
\\test\sys\test.exe

No problem yet. But if you'll try to use `cd \\test\sys\..' WOW! it'll
crash the mapping and will give you volume list for the dir ...
I'll rephrase : using true names in file operations on the top of Novell
DOS requester ignore drive mappings and may even remap them.

Hope this will help.

-- 
							Sincerely yours, Ilya
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