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From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject:	Re: lfn from scratch...
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date:	Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:49:34 -0600 (CST)
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> It is IMHO a bad idea to disallow chdir on UNC directories: some
> applications depend on that.  

It's just not supported.

> Important shell scripts, such as texi2dvi, and some programs from the 
> TeX-related packages come to mind.

They won't work then.  They don't currently.

> It is also a misfeature in general to have a directory which cannot be
> chdir'ed into.  We cannot expect to get away with that.

Microsoft did and they got away with it :-)

> Perhaps you could look into what Windows programs, such as COMMAND.COM
> or CMD.EXE, do when you type "cd \\cws333\c$\djgpp".

C:\>cd \\cws333\c$\djgpp
'\\cws333\c$\djgpp' is an invalid current directory path.  UNC paths are not 
supported.

It appears the changes to support UNCs might not be too bad (a few more
if blocks here and there).  Maybe when I get caught up a bit.

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