Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 16:36:16 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Demmer AT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de
cc: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>,
        djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Where to get the latest sources for djtar
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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Tom Demmer wrote:

> I tried Martins version on a 3.11 NW server with VLMs as the network 
> redirector. It worked fine up to the 25th subdirectory, starting from
> the NW _real_root dir of the netware volumes, so this is a limitation 
> of Netware.

IIRC, Netware 3.x hooks the DOS Interrupt 21h *ahead* of DOS, as opposed 
to using the DOS network redirector interface, which is how most of the 
network software works.  The DOS Network Redirector API lets DOS use its 
usual internal structures (and thus imposes the same limitations) as for 
the local drives, and only calls the network drivers for the primitive 
operations, like open, read, scan directory, etc.  OTOH, Novell 3.x 
catches the DOS functions ahead of DOS and thus bypasses DOS entirely.

Therefore, it is no surprise that Netware has diffirent restrictions.

Netware 4.x switched to using the redirector API, again IIRC.