Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 11:11:21 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Richard Slobod <71231 DOT 104 AT compuserve DOT com> cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: fixpath problem in Novell drives. In-Reply-To: <354e826c.6768297@news.warwick.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Tue, 5 May 1998, Richard Slobod wrote: > >Under Windows, yes, but on MSDOS it depends on the redirector. Novell > >generally supports it (because it intercepts DOS calls ahead of DOS), but > >other redirectors typically don't support such names. > > Actually, only Novell's old NETX clients worked that way and they > didn't support UNC names Not as far as I know. It is true that only old NETX clients would grab the DOS interrupt, but their support of UNCs is okay. > Novell's later DOS clients both support UNC (in addition to the Novell > syntax) and are true redirectors. I don't specifically know of any > redirector-based network client that doesn't support UNC (certainly > both Microsoft's DOS client and LANtastic support it), but I > admittedly haven't checked every DOS network client in existence. Actually, the later versions of Novell DOS clients are more of a problem here. That's because the DOS redirector interface is actually a callback mechanism: DOS does all the usual work and calls the redirector only when it needs to perform an actual operation on a file, and the drive in question is marked as a networked drive. So, when using the newer Novell clients, the support for UNCs under DOS should be worse, since DOS itself cannot grok names like \\SERVER\SYS\DIR.