From: "Ilya P. Ryzhenkov" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Beware : JPTUI 3.6 has bugs with networks Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 18:15:08 -0800 Organization: Institute of Semiconductor Physics Lines: 37 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3291182C.43E2@spy.isp.nsc.ru> References: <56numq$vgi AT news DOT teaser DOT fr> Reply-To: ilya AT spy DOT isp DOT nsc DOT ru NNTP-Posting-Host: arab.isp.nsc.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Jean-Pierre Delprat wrote: > > Hello, everyone. > > I'm terribly sorry but the version I've released a few days ago (a > little too quickly, I'm afraid) has problems with network drives > (It's not very easy to test this because I don't personally have a > network). > When you use it in a network environment, some local drives are not > detected (C:...). Moreover, when you select ".." in the root > directory of a network drive, the program hangs. Hmmm... This all talks about problems with network drives force me to remember one bug (or feature) of particulary Novell DOS requester. I don't know if it is same in other shells but i think it'll be usefull never the less. So. let's imagine you have server `test' and a volume `sys' on it. and you map it to the drive H: like map root h:=test\sys:\ 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. Hope this will help. -- Sincerely yours, Ilya ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- mailto://ilya AT spy DOT isp DOT nsc DOT ru http://spy.isp.nsc.ru