From:	jpdelprat AT teaser DOT fr (Jean-Pierre Delprat)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Beware : JPTUI 3.6 has bugs with networks
Date:	Wed, 20 Nov 1996 06:14:11 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:


>On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Ilya P. Ryzhenkov wrote:

>> 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.

>AFAIK, the only function in the DJGPP library which uses "true names" is
>`stat', and it knows how to do that in a way that doesn't conflict with
>Novell.  So I don't think true names are the reason, unless JPTUI calls
>`_truename' or its equivalent directly (which I don't see why it should 
>need to). 

In fact, I don't use this kind of function, even if they are
excellent, because JPTUI is written in DJGPP and Borland C++ at the
same time. So I have to use only commun functions.

I can say that file management functions are fat better in DJGPP. For
example, the fixpath function in DJGPP works very well whereas the
equivalent function in Borland C++ (_fullpath) has many bugs.

 Regards,
  Jeepy
Jeepy (Jean-Pierre Delprat)
jpdelprat AT teaser DOT fr
www.teaser.fr/~jpdelprat (JPTUI home page)

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