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From: karn@ka9q.bellcore.com (Phil Karn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: ka9q erases domain.txt? ftpusers changed?
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Date: 6 Sep 89 01:47:01 GMT
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Reply-To: karn@ka9q.bellcore.com (Phil Karn)
Organization: Secular Humanists for No-Code
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>I have the August 89 release of net.exe (KA9Q).  It seems to want to erase 
>the domain.txt file everytime I run net.

I don't understand how this can happen. I open the domain.txt file in append
mode whenever new entries arrive from a server to be cached, so unless
there's something funny about your version of MS-DOS (or, if you've
recompiled the code, something funny about your C stdio library) the
domain.txt file should never shrink -- only grow.

>Also, the ftpusers file does not
>seem to work anymore.  Are there new file definitions?

Yes. All you have to do is change the backslashes (\) in the pathname field
to forward slashes (/). I decided I wanted to keep the format of that file
uniform across all the various ports of NET.

Phil