Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/20/00:27:11
"Ilya P. Ryzhenkov" <ilya AT spy DOT isp DOT nsc DOT ru> wrote:
>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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>mailto://ilya AT spy DOT isp DOT nsc DOT ru
>http://spy.isp.nsc.ru
Thank you for your help. My problem at the moment is not really this
one but I think my fix will make yours disappear (I'm not sure thought
since I don't have a novell server available; it's up to JPTUI users
to report any problems with it : I count on you) .
Thanks,
Jeepy
Jeepy (Jean-Pierre Delprat)
jpdelprat AT teaser DOT fr
www.teaser.fr/~jpdelprat (JPTUI home page)
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