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From: Ullrich_Fischer@mindlink.UUCP (Ullrich Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: KILL text file oddity NW 386 3.1A
Message-ID: <5359@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 91 14:19:10 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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On a Netware 386 3.1A file server using Version 3.01 Rev D of the NET3.COM
I ran into the following oddity:

I created a batch file (KILL.BAT) containing 7 lines of the following form:

    PKUNZIP -V CAMB16xxx >> KILL

where xxx was different in each line but the rest of the lines were identical.

When I looked at KILL with Buerg's LIST program, I saw the results of an SLIST
command showing a list of all 84 servers on our internet (most of the servers
are attached to the server on which this happened via an X.25 bridge), followed
by the expected output from PKUNZIP.

When I tried to find KILL, Neither DIR, nor FLAG found it.  QEDIT also couldn't
find it and tried to create an empty KILL file.

When I changed KILL.BAT to dump its output to KILL.1, everything worked as
expected, with a normal KILL.1 text file being created containing only the
output from the PKUNZIP command.

I tried this a few times and made sure that no KILL file existed prior to
running KILL.BAT (although since DIR and FLAG couldn't find KILL after the
KILL.BAT file ran, I can't be too sure about this one either).

Has anyone heard of this problem?  Any ideas as to what might be going on?
Is KILL a reserved filename under Netware 386?


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