From: jpdelprat AT teaser DOT fr (Jean-Pierre Delprat)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Beware : JPTUI 3.6 has bugs with networks
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 21:18:25 GMT
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"Ilya P. Ryzhenkov" <ilya AT spy DOT isp DOT nsc DOT ru> wrote:

>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

Thank you for your help. My problem at the moment is not really this
one but I think my fix will make yours disappear (I'm not sure thought
since I don't have a novell server available; it's up to JPTUI users
to report any problems with it  : I count on you) .

Thanks,
    Jeepy
Jeepy (Jean-Pierre Delprat)
jpdelprat AT teaser DOT fr
www.teaser.fr/~jpdelprat (JPTUI home page)