Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/08/18/08:31:42
On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Roland Exler wrote:
> With Novell 4, the '.' and '..' entries in the dir's are only shown, if
> enabled by a line 'SHOW DOTS = ON' in the section 'NetWare DOS Requester' of
> your file 'net.cfg'. Maybe this is true for Novell 3.x too.
This ``feature'' of Novell 3.x is responsible for a known bug in `stat'
whereby stat("f:/path/.") fails if F: is a networked drive under Novell.
The next release has an improved version of `stat' that works around that
problem.
> I'm using djgpp without problems on a Novell 4, 10MBit/s Network. To speed up
> compilation and linking I've put a copy of the parts needed (no
> sources,...) on the computer I work most of the time.
Novell 4 doesn't exhibit this problem because it uses the DOS network
redirector API instead of hooking Int 21h directly, as 3.x did.
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