Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:54:15 -0800
Message-Id: <199801280054.AA15868@lafn.org>
From: aw585 AT lafn DOT org (Dallas Legan)
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: RFC
Reply-To: aw585 AT lafn DOT org
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I'm forwarding this from the DOS-Emu (DOS emulator for LINUX) 
(linux-msdos-digest / Majordomo AT vger DOT rutgers DOT edu)
mailing list (with H. Lermen's permission) to get opinions 
from the people on OpenDOS.
(I'm not trolling for flames, (just reasoned reactions) honest!  :-) )


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From: Hans Lermen <lermen AT elserv DOT ffm DOT fgan DOT de>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 08:57:03 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: DOSEMU's redirectoed drive letters

On Tue, 9 Dec 1997 quinn AT up-cbruster DOT unl DOT edu wrote:

> I am having problems with DOSEMU 0.66.7 on Intel RedHat 4.2.  I have 
> it up and running and it runs most apps fine, but I have one 
> application that requires drives L,M,N,O,P, so I created them using 
> lredir.  My problem is that on these drives, I must call a file by 
> the full 8.3 name.  If I have a batch file called go.bat, I must run 
> it by typing go.bat, I can't start it by typing go.

This was reported to happen with non-MS DOSes (DRDOS and successors).
It looks like to be a bug in command.com. I would appreciate, if you could
manage to test with an alternative command.com (such as 4dos) and report 
back.

Hans
<lermen AT fgan DOT de>


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