From: "Tom Demmer" <DEMMER AT brain1 DOT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de>
Organization:  Lehrstuhl Stroemungsmechanik, RUB
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:          Tue, 5 May 1998 20:15:41 GMT-1
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Subject:       Re: fixpath problem in Novell drives.
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> 
> On Tue, 5 May 1998, Tom Demmer wrote:
> 
> > MAP ROOT L:=i:\demmer
> > MAP ROOT K:=i:\demmer\tmp
> > K:
> > cp turboc.cfg l:/tmp
> > 
> > yield:
> > No warning,
> > turboc.cfg truncated to length zero.
> 
> Is that DOS, Windows 3.X, Windows 9X?  Which one?
DOS 6.22, Netware VLM redirector. 


> 
> > cp --v
> >   cp - GNU Fileutils-3.13
> > 
> > Hmm, is this still up to date?
> 
> No, please try the latest upload of Fileutils 3.16.  It is possible that 
> the version of `stat' used to build 3.13 had subtle bugs on networked 
> drives.
Then, I'm said to say that 3.16 doesn't fix this. 
Eli, I'll check out the stat() output for such weird cases, and 
report to you  in private mail. 

[...]
> 
> > > First, you can avoid mapping different drive letters to the same disk on 
> > > the same machine.  (Remember that "don't do that" joke?)
> > 
> > I do know what I am doing (read: I can sometimes figure out what went 
> > wrong when I didn't know what I was doing), but some of the users 
> > here cannot.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't mean *that* joke.  I meant the one where the patient 
> tells the doctor it hurts when he does ``like this'', and the doctor 
> answers ``Then don't do that.''

OK, sometimes I realize why I shouldn't have done that ;-)

Ciao
Tom

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