Date:	Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:05:08 +0200 (MET DST)
From:	Mark Habersack <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To:	grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To:	Diego Zuccato <dz AT bo DOT dada DOT it>
cc:	Lorier <lorier AT ihug DOT co DOT nz>, pierre AT tycho DOT com,
	opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Usage of directory entries
In-Reply-To:	<335754BB.1047@bo.dada.it>
Message-ID:	<Pine.BSI.3.96.970418170402.25920D-100000@hoth.amu.edu.pl>
Organization:	PPP (Pesticide Powered Pumpkins)
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Diego Zuccato wrote:

> Right. I am a SysOp (Fido node 2:332/437) and I like having all the
> filebase under network drive F: which is C:\FILEBASE (SUBSTed on the
> 'server').
> Now I have to add another HDD, so I'll simply make another dir under
> C:\FILEBASE (say PROGRAMM.ING) and add a JOIN of new drive D: in
> C:\FILEBASE\PROGRAMM.ING . All paths in config files keep referring F:
> and all is clean.
> But it's got a disavantage : when I ask for the free space it doesen't
> count the free space on the JOINed drive, even if I'm asking it from
> within C:\FILEBASE\PROGRAMM.ING :-((( (I'm using Novell Dos 7 and I'm
> just waiting for EXT2 support in OD).
Have you tried the 'df' command from ShellUtils ported to DJGPP? It does what
you need - it lists sizes of *all* mounted file systems (including JOINed and
SUBSTed drives)
 
> > powerfull language.  I don't like the way Microsoft has dumbed Command.com
> > down to the level of intolerable idiocy in its latest operating systems.
> It's M$ :-(
Yeah... Micro$loth...

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