Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/05/05/15:17:23
>
> On Tue, 5 May 1998, Tom Demmer wrote:
>
> > MAP ROOT L:=i:\demmer
> > MAP ROOT K:=i:\demmer\tmp
> > K:
> > cp turboc.cfg l:/tmp
> >
> > yield:
> > No warning,
> > turboc.cfg truncated to length zero.
>
> Is that DOS, Windows 3.X, Windows 9X? Which one?
DOS 6.22, Netware VLM redirector.
>
> > cp --v
> > cp - GNU Fileutils-3.13
> >
> > Hmm, is this still up to date?
>
> No, please try the latest upload of Fileutils 3.16. It is possible that
> the version of `stat' used to build 3.13 had subtle bugs on networked
> drives.
Then, I'm said to say that 3.16 doesn't fix this.
Eli, I'll check out the stat() output for such weird cases, and
report to you in private mail.
[...]
>
> > > First, you can avoid mapping different drive letters to the same disk on
> > > the same machine. (Remember that "don't do that" joke?)
> >
> > I do know what I am doing (read: I can sometimes figure out what went
> > wrong when I didn't know what I was doing), but some of the users
> > here cannot.
>
> Sorry, I didn't mean *that* joke. I meant the one where the patient
> tells the doctor it hurts when he does ``like this'', and the doctor
> answers ``Then don't do that.''
OK, sometimes I realize why I shouldn't have done that ;-)
Ciao
Tom
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