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- From: pjt@dar.csiro.au (Peter Turner)
- Subject: PC-NFS
- Message-ID: <1992Sep16.000144.2667@aurora.dar.csiro.au>
- Keywords: PC-NFS, CD-ROM
- Sender: @aurora.dar.csiro.au
- Reply-To: pjt@dar.csiro.au
- Organization: CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:01:44 GMT
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- I have recently purchased a 1:1,000,000 scale Digital Chart of the World made by
- the US Defence Mapping Agency which is supplied as 4 CD-ROMS in ISO 9660 format.
- The software to display the maps is supplied as source code and IBM-PC compatible
- executables. I intend to port the software to run as a Sun application, but first wanted
- to see what it does using the DOS executables. I mounted the relevant data disk
- (mount -rt hsfs /dev/sr0 /dcw) and then mounted the dcw directory as disk G:
- on a PC running PC-NFS version 3.0.
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- Problem: A large number of the files on the CD list under SunOS with trailing
- "." s. For example "dht.". Under PC-NFS on the PC the same file lists as DHT with
- no trailing ".". However, when you try to access it under DOS (3.2) it claims the
- file does not exist. Attempts to use dht + "*" combinations also failed.
- I then tried the same mounting proceedure using PC-NFS 4.0 and DOS 5.0.
- This time the files on the CD ending with dot listed with funny characters
- under DOS - "DHT~~~JA ". This time the file could be accessed as DHT~~~JA.
- Unfortunately the DOS map view software wants to open DHT and not DHT~~~JA
- so this was not much help. Other files on the CD which end with ".DOC" and
- other DOS extensions are quite OK. The troubles occur only with the files which
- list under SunOS with a "." at the end of the file name. (These are accessable
- through SunOS OK too)
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- I tried symbolic linking the offending file names on the Sun and then mounting
- the symbolic linked area. Unfortunately as might expected these links dont
- appear when the area on the Sun is PC-NFS mounted to the PC.
- Can anyone offer any suggestions to get around the problem or atleast
- offer an explanation of why I am having so much trouble.
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- Thanks in advance Peter Turner
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