DAVISTD@MSU.BITNET (Tom Davis) (11/16/89)
Geoff, is there any (straightforward) way to do this? I'm still real interested. My apologies if you've tried to E-mail... I haven't seen anything. ------- Tom Davis | The above statement shall be construed, Network Software Services | interpreted, and governed by me alone. Michigan State University | EMail: davistd@ibm.cl.msu.edu
GEustace@massey.ac.nz (Glen Eustace) (11/24/89)
If the Unix filename is known, it is possible to open it directly,
provided that the path conforms to DOS stds.
i.e. fopen( "/dir1/dir2/dir3/aunixfilename", ... ) works
fopen( "/dir1/dir2/aunixdirectory/myfile", ... ) does not.
The program that posted this NETNEWS/PC actually mounts /usr/spool and
reads all the articles directly, opening them is a problem when you have
names like /aus/computers/ibmpc/37, the way I handle this is to do the
following;
chdir( "/news" );
chdir( "aus" );
chdir( "computers" );
chdir( "ibmpc" );
fopen( "37", "r" ); which works great.
The only problem I have struck is trying to open unix files with mixed
case i.e. 'MyFile' cannot be opened as PC-NFS downcases all the letters
before attempting the open.
With the above in mind, it would be nice to be able to find the Unix name
for ABCDE~AA via a reverse mapping.
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