Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 15:02:47 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Incompatibilities with NT
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On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Andrew Crabtree wrote:

> Clearcase makes a special drive letter that you access you version
> controlled files through.  In my case (default) this is the M drive.
> The problem?  DJGPP tools can't see any files on the m drive.

Does the DOS box know about it?  That is, can you chdir there, list
files with DIR, copy files with XCOPY, etc., all using the default NT
shell (cmd.exe, I think)?

> What now - Does anybody know if there are different api's that could be used
> to get file info from than the ones djgpp uses?

You need to establish whether the way Clearcase creates that drive
makes it visible to DOS programs.  If the tests above from the DOS box
work, please type the following (in the DOS box):

       truename m:\

and tell what does it print.  (I assume that this command still works
in NT's native shell, but I cannot test this, as I have no access to
NT.)

Also, it is not clear to me why do they make a drive letter at all?
The files are kept locally on your hard drive, right?  So why cannot
you just access them using whatever pathname they are installed in?