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From: Roland Exler <R DOT Exler AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
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Subject: Re: djgpp + Novell = Problems ?
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:32:31 -0700
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Thomas Demmer wrote:
> Oh yes, why does gcc stat 'x:/djgpp/lib/.' instead of 'x:/djgpp/lib' ?
> Well, it comes from UNIX and you can have symbolic links. The dotless test
> can exist, but might be a link pointing to some nonexisting directory.
> Or it might be just a plain file, or some pipe or whatever. The first test
> makes sure that the path leads to an existing directory. Just to
> show you some gotchas when porting from DOS to UNIX...

With Novell 4, the '.' and '..' entries in the dir's are only shown, if 
enabled by a line 'SHOW DOTS = ON' in the section 'NetWare DOS Requester' of 
your file 'net.cfg'. Maybe this is true for Novell 3.x too. 

It's easy to check if dots are on or not, as the dir-command won't get them 
too if disabled.

I'm using djgpp without problems on a Novell 4, 10MBit/s Network. To speed up 
compilation and linking I've put a copy of the parts needed (no 
sources,...) on the computer I work most of the time.
 
Roland

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