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Article #6534Re: Help: How to (not) identify a network drive
From: Siddhartha Sen
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:57
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:57
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In article <1992Dec16.141307.3469@ugle.unit.no> baardkjo@idt.unit.no writes:
>MS-DOS has got this stupid idea it is a network drive, and certain
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>How does MS-DOS identify a network drive?
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>How do i get MS-DOS to understand "the true nature" of my driver?
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Try doing yourself one favour: Give the command (if > ver 4.01) :-
TRUENAME X: (where X: is the drive). Just check if gives a network type
true pathname ("\\something\..) If it is then COMMAND.COM is interpreting
it as a net-device. Do this check please .
- Siddhartha
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!signet!sen From: sen@signet.com (Siddhartha Sen) Subject: Re: Help: How to (not) identify a network drive Message-ID: <BzFH7F.L5E@signet.com> Organization: Sigma Network Systems, Reading Ma. References: <1992Dec16.141307.3469@ugle.unit.no> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:57:14 GMT Lines: 19