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Subject: Re: djgpp + Novell = Problems ?
Date: 19 Aug 96 14:39:24 +0200
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 960818152220 DOT 1338N-100000 AT is>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
> 
> 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.

Weird.

We're running Novell 4.1 here and make,gcc, etc. barf all over the place.
What's more, even though the network supervisor has put SHOW DOTS = ON in the
..cfg file (it was actually there before), typing "dir" at the DOS prompt
doesn't show '.' and '..'. The reason seems to be a bug in MSDOS 5.0. Some
machines (read Lecturers' machines 8-/ ) have DOS 6.22, and they show '.' and
'..'. Eli said Novell 4 doesn't have this problem, so what gives ?

If nothing else works, I'll have to get the new stat() source code and rebuild
_everything_ (ld,gcc,as,make, etc.) At least info works ...

Adios
Mark Wodrich.