Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 15:25:50 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Roland Exler <R DOT Exler AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: djgpp + Novell = Problems ?
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On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Roland Exler wrote:

> 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. 

This ``feature'' of Novell 3.x is responsible for a known bug in `stat' 
whereby stat("f:/path/.") fails if F: is a networked drive under Novell.  
The next release has an improved version of `stat' that works around that 
problem.

> 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.

Novell 4 doesn't exhibit this problem because it uses the DOS network 
redirector API instead of hooking Int 21h directly, as 3.x did.