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> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:14:56 +0100
> From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> 
> I booted (*) into DOS from Windows '98 SE. The function failed with errno ==
> EINVAL. "dir \\somemachine\someshare" from COMMAND.COM also failed with a "bad
> value" message.
> 
> This is OK, I think.

I thought about plain DOS with network software, sorry I didn't make
that clear.  There was once a shareware redirector called XFS, for
example (perhaps it's still on SimTel).