WP
Russ Kepler
russ at bbx.UUCP
Thu Nov 23 05:21:45 AEST 1989
In article <103 at clkwrka.UUCP> neal at clkwrka.UUCP writes:
>Sure I got it to work great... sort of. Here is the deal:
>
> It gets real upset about using any sort of virtual drives. Gags and
> spits and rolls on the floor. Sooo, you have to load IT AND EVERY
> FILE you intend to use onto the Dos partition. Of course, this means
> that only one person can use it at a time, but otherwise it tools
> along.
>
There's a *good* reason for this: VP/ix still lies about the length
of a file that exists in the Xenix filesystem. open() a file using
the MS-DOS 3.0 'shared+deny none' attribtes, lseek() to the end and
look at the returned length: 4385 bytes. Never more, never less.
Works *real* good for software designed to work on networks. I've
gotten *soooo* tired of reporting this that I just don't bother any
more - I just tell folks not to bother with VP/ix.
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