cliff@demon.co.uk (Cliff Stanford) (05/15/91)
Using PC-NFS under Dos 5, setver fails. I have several programs (including a simple one which does nothing other than return the dos version number) which are setver'd to 3.30 or 4.01. Without PC-NFS loaded, they work as expected. They see the setver'd value. But *with* PC-NFS loaded they always see version 5.00. Incidentally, this only applies when running on ethernet ... the SLIP drivers don't have this effect. Anyone know why it happens? Or how to get round it? I've tried setver'ing the .SYS files to no effect. Regards, Cliff. -- Cliff Stanford Email: cliff@demon.co.uk (Work) Demon Systems Limited cms@demon.co.uk (Home) 42 Hendon Lane Phone: 081-349 0063 (Office) London N3 1TT England 0860 375870 (Mobile)
geoff@bodleian.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (05/17/91)
Quoth cliff@demon.co.uk (Cliff Stanford) (in <1991May14.192801.15453@demon.co.uk>): # # Using PC-NFS under Dos 5, setver fails. I have several programs #(including a simple one which does nothing other than return the dos #version number) which are setver'd to 3.30 or 4.01. Without PC-NFS #loaded, they work as expected. They see the setver'd value. But *with* #PC-NFS loaded they always see version 5.00. Incidentally, this only #applies when running on ethernet ... the SLIP drivers don't have this #effect. Anyone know why it happens? Or how to get round it? I've #tried setver'ing the .SYS files to no effect. This is correct. The problem is that PC-NFS takes over the EXEC call, and the SETVER information is used at EXEC time by DOS to determine what version to report to each process. It's not something we can do a quick'n'dirty patch for. It's on the list of things for the next release, but that's of limited use to you right now, of course..... -- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Sun Microsystems PC Distributed Systems ... -- -- ... soon to be a part of SunTech (stay tuned for details) --