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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 19:36:10 -0400
From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Many DJGPP programs cause network traffic???
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Endlisnis wrote:
>
> > "ls" seems to send ~ 350bytes and recieve ~ 250bytes consistantly.
> > Rhide send about 700bytes.
>
> Does it happen every time you run `ls', or just sometime?

    It is very inconsistent, and I can't seem to recreate it now.  After it
happens once, it will continue to happen consistantly until I hangup my
modem.  Right now, I can't get it to do anything.

> One possibility is that you somehow cause these programs to use file
> names with double slashes, like "//foo/bar" or "\\foo\bar".  When
> presented with such names, Windows 9X will automatically look for them
> on the network, on the assumtions that they are UNC references to
> network shares (aka networked drives exported by other machines).
>
> Perhaps you set PATH_SEPARATOR=: inside Bash, which causes it to
> convert PATH and other file names from x:/foo/bar into the //x/foo/bar
> format, and these names somehow leak to the applications you run from
> Bash.

    I didn't set PATH_SEPARATOR to anything.  And trying to access "//foo/bar"
does nothing, but trying "\\foo\bar" causes the signals to be sent
(consistantly).  Ok, I guess that was it.  Thanx.
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