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From: mitsu@well.sf.ca.us (Mitsuharu Hadeishi)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Problems with FTP PC/TCP for OS/2
Message-ID: <22107@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 11 Dec 90 08:32:29 GMT
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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	We are having several problems with PC/TCP for OS/2,
and we were wondering if there was an update to the version we
have (version 1.0, purchased about one month ago.)

	1) rcp will not allow you to specify a drive letter
as a parameter to a file path if the host is an OS/2 host.
We've tried rcp os2:d\:filename and every other possibility;
rcp thinks "d" is a host name (or "d\").  This is rather inconvenient.

	2) Whenever any PC/TCP tool under OS/2 tries to access
a file on a Novell network drive, it gets the error "not a plain
file."  Thus, if you try to ftp a file from a network drive, you get
the error "not a plain file".  The only way to copy a binary file
from a network drive to unix is to copy it to a local drive first,
then copy it to the unix machine.  This is REALLY inconvenient.
It is possible to rcp TO a Novell network drive, just not FROM.
(Same with ftp, etc.)  Please tell me there is a fix to this problem.

	Mitsu Hadeishi
	Open Mind
	mitsu@well.sf.ca.us
	apple!well!mitsu