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From: mallsop@suna.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Mark Allsop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: KILL text file oddity NW 386 3.1A
Message-ID: <1428@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
Date: 3 Apr 91 04:41:46 GMT
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In article <7235@bgsuvax.UUCP: jyoull@bgsuvax.UUCP (Jim Youll) writes:
:In article <5359@mindlink.UUCP: Ullrich_Fischer@mindlink.UUCP (Ullrich Fischer) writes:
::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:
:: [... details omitted]
::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.
::Has anyone heard of this problem?  Any ideas as to what might be going on?
::Is KILL a reserved filename under Netware 386?
::
:I dunno, but I run Advanced Netware 2.15c, and after loading IPX and NET3
:(specifically NET3) if I try to create a file called "NEXT" on any drive
:at all (even local drives when I'm not logged in) the machine hangs.
:
:Maybe I'm missing something obvious here (advance blush) but the filename NEXT
:just wreaks havoc. You should have seen my confusion as I tried to d/l
:a file that I had named "NeXT" last week - the machine kept crashing for
:No Good Reason.

Novell uses some reserved file names.  For example, the name <NETQ> is a special
file name that Novell uses when printing to a network queue.  By using the file
name NETQ, or any name that starts with NE and has 4 characters, you can get 
some nasty results.  At one stage a file name like NEXT crashed our backup for
a while before we traced the problem.  If you don't know what you're looking
for you can really get into problems!

I tried the same thing with the name KILL but couldn't re-produce it.  Maybe
someone else knows about another reserved name I havn't come accross yet?

Cheers,
+Mark.


It is very possible that the same thing
applies with the name KILL being related to a reserved word.
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 Mark Allsop                                              Computer Scientist 
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