X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f From: shadow AT shadowgard DOT com Organization: Shadowgard To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:31:29 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: COPY/MOVE From Mapped Drive Message-ID: <40F470D1.9556.3DE9DFA@localhost> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21b) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 13 Jul 2004 at 22:56, Gary Welles wrote: > On 2004-07-13 Matthias Paul wrote: > > > Depending on what criteria 4DOS uses in order to determine if > > a drive is remote or local, it may be possible . . . > > I don't recommend it. > > 4DOS identifies my local CD-ROM drive as "remote" and copying > from it is not a problem. As Matthias suggests, it's likely > not as simple as I first thought. The files on the CD are also *read-only*. I bet if you mark files on the other system read-only, you'll be able to copy them just fine too. > I've reached that conclusion as well. The result is that 4DOS > regardless of underlying DOS may lock itself out of copying > from who knows what remote system or gadget. They may be > taking a narrow view of what a server might be. Well, the thing is, copying a file that may change (or need to be changed) while you are copying it is generally a bad idea. -- Leonard Erickson (aka shadow) shadow at shadowgard dot com