kayvan@mrspoc.transact.com (Kayvan Sylvan) (08/07/89)
A bit of explanation for those who don't know (or care) about XenixNet.
Xenixnet files have the following syntax: //hostname/dir1/dir2/file. In our
particular case, we have two machines, mrspoc and guinan, running XenixNet.
This allows easy access to both systems.
In bash 1.02:
bash$ cd //guinan <--- go over to guinan
bash$ echo $PWD
//guinan <--- so far so good.
bash$ cat etc/M-? <--- Now, I want to see what's in etc, so M-?
Bash ding()s at me and no files are displayed.
bash$ cd //guinan
bash$ ls
News/ bin/ boot boot.old db/ dev/
dos etc/ lib/ lost+found/ mnt/ once/
shlib/ tmp/ u/ u2/ u3/ users/
usr/ wmgr.rc xenix* xenix.good xenix.old*
bash$ ls *
* not found
bash$ cat etc/motd <--- Now, cat guinan's /etc/motd
Welcome to 10 Forward
How May Guinan Serve You?
bash$
Note that the ls shows the right list, but the 'ls *' does not work.
I haven't looked at the source to figure out what the cause is yet.
---Kayvan
Kayvan Sylvan @ Transact Software, Inc. -*- Los Altos, CA (415) 961-6112
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