mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) (04/17/88)
We've been experiencing a weird Novell Netware bug. It sometimes just ignores the directory structure completely. For example, when I remake a certain program in one of my directories, the program somehow winds up in another directory *on another disk*! This only seems to happen when there are two files with the same name in different directories. Is anyone else experiencing this? Do you have a fix? Thanks in advance for any insight. -- Mark McWiggins UUCP: uunet!intek01!mark DISCLAIMER: I could be wrong. INTERNET: mark@intek01.UUCP (206) 641-5014
cig@genrad.UUCP (Charles I. Ganimian Jr.) (04/19/88)
In article <286@intek01.UUCP> mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes: >We've been experiencing a weird Novell Netware bug. It sometimes just >ignores the directory structure completely. For example, when I remake >a certain program in one of my directories, the program somehow winds >up in another directory *on another disk*! > >This only seems to happen when there are two files with the same name >in different directories. Is anyone else experiencing this? Do you >have a fix? > I have been experiencing the same problem, if the file already exists in the search path it is over written. The only work-around I have found is to .\ in the makefile and this is a poor solution. I am trying to get and answer from a BBS conference in New York but so far I have come up with nothing. Does anyone know of a fix? Has anyone paid Novell $894.96 for unlimited support and is willing to find and answer? >Thanks in advance for any insight. DITTO! charlie g.
gof@crash.cts.com (Jerry Fountain) (04/20/88)
In article <286@intek01.UUCP> mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes: >We've been experiencing a weird Novell Netware bug. It sometimes just >ignores the directory structure completely. For example, when I remake >a certain program in one of my directories, the program somehow winds >up in another directory *on another disk*! > >This only seems to happen when there are two files with the same name >in different directories. Is anyone else experiencing this? Do you >have a fix? > >Thanks in advance for any insight. > The cause of your problem is easy to see by checking your drive mappings. Novell's SEARCH drives are *not* like a normal DOS path, they also allow a program to grab a data file via a search drive (or almost any open/write operation). The way LINK often works is to delete the old EXE, then open is (via create for example). The problem is that Novell sees the open file on a search drive, assumes that is the file that LINK wants and then 'opens' the existing file just as it should. The only solution is to EXPLICITLY declare the path (as most unixeese might do) via a '.\filename' type declaration. I have also observed other programs exhibit the same behavior (LIB for example). -- -----Jerry Fountain----- UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd,sdcsvax,nosc}!crash!pnet01!gof ARPA: crash!gof@nosc.mil MAIL: 523 Glen Oaks Dr., Alpine, Calif. 92001 INET: gof@pnet01.CTS.COM
jjw@igloo.UUCP (John Welch) (04/21/88)
In article <286@intek01.UUCP> mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes: >We've been experiencing a weird Novell Netware bug. It sometimes just >ignores the directory structure completely. For example, when I remake >a certain program in one of my directories, the program somehow winds >up in another directory *on another disk*! > >This only seems to happen when there are two files with the same name >in different directories. Is anyone else experiencing this? Do you >have a fix? Do you have any path-fixing TSR programs loaded? I use DPATH30 to allow me to access Wordstar (yeah, ugh, alright, but I know it) to be able to find ALL the files. DPATH30 has a mode that will allow you to open, FOR WRITE ACCESS, a file in a directory specified by the path. Thus, by having PATH set to C:\;C:\UTIL;C:\DOS, if I were on D: and tried editing AUTOEXEC.BAT, it would not only come up with C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT, but all the changes would be done to the file on drive C:, without ever warning me this is happening. Don't know if this is your problem, but it might be. -- ========================================================================== John Welch ..{codas,ihnp4}!ddsw1!igloo!jjw "Oh, reality - it's not for me, and it makes me laugh, but fantasy world, and those Disney girls... I'm coming back!"