From: "Matthias Paul" Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:48:56 +0100 Subject: Re: DOS Navigator X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-ID: <2131D8A5C80@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On 18 Jul 2000 Pavel V. Ozerski wrote: > On my computer Dos Navigator Open Source 1.51.07/DOS hangs immediately This is exactly what happens on my system, too (using DN 1.51.?? as of spring 1999) under DR-DOS 7.03. After some fighting with the 1.51 sources (disabling all the apparently partially missing serial communications stuff) I was able to compile the stuff and got an issue of 1.51 with rather different file sizes that worked under DR-DOS 7.03. However, I'm using the latest Shareware issue 1.50 most of the time, which did not show these problems, and over the years I encountered the following problems: - Using it in a NT 4 DOS box and moving multiple files/directories on a remote NetWare 4 server, the immediate effect is that both, the old and the new branch will disappear in the file panel (as well as at the DOS prompt) and the NetWare server will crash badly, loosing all connections, and needs a reboot... This was reproducable, but since the effect was so drastic and had serious impact on our few hundereds field machines here, I never actually tracked down, if the problem was with the crude NT 4 DOS emulation, the NT NetWare drivers, or the NetWare server itself... ;-> Moving single files does not cause any problems at all. Also, the problem does not occur, when moving directories on the NetWare server from a plain DOS workstation. - Copying very large sub-dir structures, DN will break with out of memory conditions, which can be quite annoying... - Copying deep sub-dir structures (a bit more than 67 chars), DN will silently truncate the filenames in the deepest directories. No error message will be shown! - I never got the Navigator Link feature to work properly. - Sometimes it was very difficult to close a Navigator Link Window because the GUI almost seemed to be locked. - Sometimes, when scrolling panels to the right and having some DOS commands waiting at DN's prompt for the final RETURN, it is not possible to scroll the panel to the left again, instead it will move the cursor in the command line. However, otherwise DN is an extremely impressive, stable, and recommendable NC clone (actually I found more bugs and ommisions in NC 5.0 and 5.01, than in DN 1.50). Reading the recent postings, I think I should try out one of the newer issues... (is there one with English docs? - my Russian is very poor... ;-) Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html -------------------------------------------------------------------