Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 13:07:42 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Richard Slobod <71231 DOT 104 AT compuserve DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: fixpath problem in Novell drives.
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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Richard Slobod wrote:

> At least some DOS calls seem to understand UNC at least to the extent
> that they recognize it as something that should be passed to the
> redirector for processing.

First, before you get to DOS calls, some programs parse the file names by 
the application code or library functions, which mostly don't understand 
UNCs.

And second, before DOS passes the UNC to the redirector, it needs to 
establish what drive does this UNC belong to (since only the drive 
determines whether the file should be handled by some redirector, and by 
which one).  AFAIK, DOS doesn't have any UNC support built into its code, 
so it fails here, and the calls you issue fails with it.