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- From: peet@locus.com (J. David Peet)
- Subject: Re: SVR4 4.0 using DOS paritions with Merge of NFS
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.030824.0600936@locus.com>
- Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
- References: <BzB1o4.JBq@news.rn.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:08:24 GMT
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- In article <BzB1o4.JBq@news.rn.com> larry@news.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- >Is it possible using Merge locally to access a DOS file system
- >on another machine running SVR4 mounted via NFS?
-
- This should work as well as accessing a UNIX file system via NFS,
- with one problem. Note that record locking must be in use
- for Merge to access any file over NFS.
-
- The problem is that when mounting a DOS file system on UNIX,
- some UNIX systems report the DOS file names all in upper case.
- When a file name has upper case letters, Merge "maps" the file
- name, which is can make the files hard to use. (This mapping
- is used to guarantee that all file names can be accesses with
- a unique name from DOS). This mapping can be turned off
- in the case of file names that have all upper case letters.
-
- Please note that this can result in potential problems
- in UNIX directories that have files with names that
- are the same execpt one is all lower case and one is all upper
- case. In this situation, with the mapping turned off,
- both files have the same name as far as DOS is concerned,
- so you will not be able to access one of the files.
-
- To turn off the mapping due to a file name having all uppercase
- set the environment varible DOSCONFIG to the value ":NOMAP_UPPERCASE:"
- Note, this is not a documented setting, and may be replaced in
- the future with another method.
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- but then again, maybe not.
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