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From: karinc@isc.intel.com (Karin Coffee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Lost PATH
Message-ID: <1093@intelisc.isc.intel.com>
Date: 17 Jan 91 17:20:59 GMT
References: <2752.278b55af@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Organization: Intel Supercomputer Systems Division, Beaverton, OR
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In article <2752.278b55af@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> klimas@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:
>I am mystified as to why upon LOGOUT, the DOS PATH is not being reset to
>what it was originally before a LOGIN.  Any suggestions?

I had this problem!  The answer has to do with search paths.  If you simply
do a MAP S1= command, you will lose part of your DOS path.  If you do a
MAP INSERT S1= command, the search path will be added to your DOS path, and
when you logout, your DOS path will still exist.

To the best of my knowledge, Novell doesn't state this anywhere in the
documentation.  I *finally* got the answer from my tech support folks (not
Novell).  This little problem exists in every version of NetWare that I've
seen (Adv.NetWare 2.12 and 2.15C, NetWare 386 3.0 and 3.1).  Adding INS to
each mapping solved the problem.


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