From: jpdelprat AT teaser DOT fr (Jean-Pierre Delprat) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Beware : JPTUI 3.6 has bugs with networks Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 06:14:11 GMT Organization: Guest of France-Teaser Lines: 35 Message-ID: <56ub0q$n5t@news.teaser.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp2816-ft.teaser.fr To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Eli Zaretskii wrote: >On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Ilya P. Ryzhenkov wrote: >> 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. >AFAIK, the only function in the DJGPP library which uses "true names" is >`stat', and it knows how to do that in a way that doesn't conflict with >Novell. So I don't think true names are the reason, unless JPTUI calls >`_truename' or its equivalent directly (which I don't see why it should >need to). In fact, I don't use this kind of function, even if they are excellent, because JPTUI is written in DJGPP and Borland C++ at the same time. So I have to use only commun functions. I can say that file management functions are fat better in DJGPP. For example, the fixpath function in DJGPP works very well whereas the equivalent function in Borland C++ (_fullpath) has many bugs. Regards, Jeepy Jeepy (Jean-Pierre Delprat) jpdelprat AT teaser DOT fr www.teaser.fr/~jpdelprat (JPTUI home page)