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- From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Subject: Re: Toward a more persistent login.exe
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.104119.14766@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:41:19 GMT
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- In article <holbor.44.0@ccmail.orst.edu> holbor@ccmail.orst.edu (Richard Holbo) writes:
- >This does not neccarily (sp) work, with older versions of Login.exe there
- >are no errorlevel's set at all. What I ended up doing was to check for the
- >Existence of Sys:public\map.exe. This will exist for Most everyone unless
-
- Yes. We, for example, are on a back-level version of LOGIN deliberately
- be able to use zero-length user login scripts. (Newer versions of LOGIN
- treat them as missing login scripts, and do the default.)
-
- I tried John Villalovos's suggestion, but still get "Batch file missing".
- He suggested that this is because my login script was mapping F: to a
- directory on a different volume, which is indeed the case. But how can
- this make a difference to DOS's batch file processor?
-