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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Path: 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
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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
- >
- >How does MS-DOS identify a network drive?
- >
- >How do i get MS-DOS to understand "the true nature" of my driver?
- >
- 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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