Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!alchemy!hrbaan From: hrbaan@cs.ruu.nl (Hayo Baan) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: 4dos misfeature? Message-ID: <1991Mar08.095253.27147@cs.ruu.nl> Date: 8 Mar 91 09:52:53 GMT References: <1991Mar6.192824.9889@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1828@manta.NOSC.MIL> <6240@borabora.omni.com> Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science Lines: 37 In <6240@borabora.omni.com> bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) writes: |I've seen this type of thing happen with 4DOS, and I've been assuming |it's an unfortunate interaction with FASTOPEN. The other day I |wanted to rename directory \AN to \AN2, so I did | cd \ | mv AN AN2 |where mv is an alias for "move", and my Unix-trained fingers prefer |to type "mv". | |This worked fine; i.e., the directory \AN was renamed to \AN2, but |there was still a phantom \AN directory there, which I could execute |"dir" on or "cd" to. It disappeared on next reboot, leading me to |believe it was FASTOPEN remembering too much. Yer right : it is FASTOPEN. The 4dos manual has a warning listed regarding this. So DON'T use fastopen!!! Maybe, this also soves the problem of the original poster... -- +------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | Hayo R. Baan | E-Mail : hrbaan@cs.ruu.nl | | Oudwijkerlaan 34 |-----------------------------------------------------| | 3581 TD UTRECHT | | | The Netherlands | A program is like a nose; | | | Sometimes it runs, sometimes it blows. | | Tel. 030-515586 | | +------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ -- +------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | Hayo R. Baan | E-Mail : hrbaan@cs.ruu.nl |