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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > 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).

    http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/151.html

It doesn't seem to be on Simtel.NET anymore, but I found it here:

    ftp://ftp.mpoli.fi/pub/software/DOS/NETWORK/ (index)
    ftp://ftp.mpoli.fi/pub/software/DOS/NETWORK/XFS189.ZIP (ZIP)

XFS is an NFS redirector for DOS. It runs on top of a packet driver.

I'll use this to do some testing of the fstat patch.

NB: XFS is also a filesystem for Irix and Linux developed by SGI. This means a
lot of Google hits on searches for XFS are for the Linux filesystem.

Incidentally, a search for "XFS redirector DOS" turns up a few links to the
DJGPP source. ;)

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

"You can't evaluate a man by logic alone." -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", Star Trek