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Article #1265Turbo Pascal 5.0 and network drives
From: Alastair Milne
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 04:43
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 04:43
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We are using Turbo Pascal 5.0 in a setup where some of the search paths for units (.TPU files) and include files include PC-NFS remote drives. While this arrangement works for the most part perfectly well, there is a specific circumstance where Turbo seems unable to see the remote drives: when a unit is listed in a USES statement whose name is over 8 characters long, or when, in positioning the source to the line where an execution break has just occurred, the source file belongs to a unit whose name is over 8 characters. When this happens on a local drive, Turbo correctly truncates the name to 8 characters, adds the .TPU or .PAS extension, and finds it among the given directories. But when the file it needs is on a remote drive, it does not find the right directory to search. These same searches work fine when the name is shorter than 8 characters. Has anybody else seen this? Does anybody know why it happens, or (bette) how to fix it? Duplicating these units on all the individual machines would not be a pleasant solution. Thanks for any help, Alastair Milne
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!uci-ics!gateway From: milne@ICS.UCI.EDU (Alastair Milne) Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.pascal,comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Turbo Pascal 5.0 and network drives Message-ID: <9002052041.aa16803@ICS.UCI.EDU> Date: 6 Feb 90 04:43:19 GMT Lines: 25