Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:17:06 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: stwand07 AT uctvms DOT uct DOT ac DOT za
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: djgpp + Novell = Problems ?
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On 19 Aug 1996 stwand07 AT uctvms DOT uct DOT ac DOT za wrote:

> '..'. Eli said Novell 4 doesn't have this problem, so what gives ?

That is what I know, but I might be wrong, because I seldom work with 
Novell, especially, if there are problems with specific combinations of 
certain DOS versions with Novell.  Novell 4 uses the DOS Network 
Redirector API, which means all the directory processing is done by DOS 
itself; however, this doesn't exclude possibility of tricks which Novell 
might play with DOS.  The case of "path/." should always work AFAIK when 
DOS is in charge, because DOS calls `truename' function (Int 
21h/AX=6000h) to qualify the name, and that call should remove the dots 
(again AFAIK).  Novell 3 just didn't replicate this behavior.

> 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 ...

If you choose to do that, I can mail you the latest source of `stat'.