Mail Archives: opendos/2000/07/26/09:49:49
On 18 Jul 2000 Pavel V. Ozerski wrote:
> On my computer Dos Navigator Open Source 1.51.07/DOS hangs immediately
This is exactly what happens on my system, too (using DN 1.51.?? as
of spring 1999) under DR-DOS 7.03. After some fighting with the 1.51
sources (disabling all the apparently partially missing serial
communications stuff) I was able to compile the stuff and got an
issue of 1.51 with rather different file sizes that worked under
DR-DOS 7.03.
However, I'm using the latest Shareware issue 1.50 most of the time,
which did not show these problems, and over the years I encountered
the following problems:
- Using it in a NT 4 DOS box and moving multiple files/directories
on a remote NetWare 4 server, the immediate effect is that
both, the old and the new branch will disappear in the file
panel (as well as at the DOS prompt) and the NetWare server will
crash badly, loosing all connections, and needs a reboot...
This was reproducable, but since the effect was so drastic and had
serious impact on our few hundereds field machines here, I never
actually tracked down, if the problem was with the crude NT 4 DOS
emulation, the NT NetWare drivers, or the NetWare server
itself... ;->
Moving single files does not cause any problems at all. Also,
the problem does not occur, when moving directories on the
NetWare server from a plain DOS workstation.
- Copying very large sub-dir structures, DN will break with out of
memory conditions, which can be quite annoying...
- Copying deep sub-dir structures (a bit more than 67 chars), DN
will silently truncate the filenames in the deepest directories.
No error message will be shown!
- I never got the Navigator Link feature to work properly.
- Sometimes it was very difficult to close a Navigator Link Window
because the GUI almost seemed to be locked.
- Sometimes, when scrolling panels to the right and having some
DOS commands waiting at DN's prompt for the final RETURN, it
is not possible to scroll the panel to the left again, instead it
will move the cursor in the command line.
However, otherwise DN is an extremely impressive, stable, and
recommendable NC clone (actually I found more bugs and ommisions
in NC 5.0 and 5.01, than in DN 1.50). Reading the recent postings,
I think I should try out one of the newer issues... (is there one
with English docs? - my Russian is very poor... ;-)
Matthias
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