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From: ericm@ims.UUCP (Eric Martinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Pipe failure on network drives.
Message-ID: <145@ims.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 91 21:41:20 GMT
Reply-To: ericm@ims.UUCP ()
Organization: Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc., Beaverton, OR
Lines: 41

We have an AST 386C that will not allow pipes to work correctly on
network drivers.  The following error message is the the result:

	intermediate file error during pipe

The machine is a 20mhz 80386DX with the following facts:

	 AST packaged MS-DOS V3.30
	 1.2MB 5.25" Floppy drive (A:)
	 720KB 3.5" Floppy driver (B:)
	 80MB (IDE) Hard Disk
	 SMC ArcNet card.
	 Netware shell V3.02

This is a particularly bizzare problem.  I have not seen it on any
of our (150) other machines.  I tried using a copy of PC-DOS V3.21
since our other machines don't have this problem using this version
of DOS and I received the same error message.  If the command:

	dir | sort

is executed on a network drive, the error message is present but if
the command is executed while the current drive is a local drive, the
error message is not present.  The folks at AST's support center don't
have anything useful to contribute to the problem.  

I originally felt the problem might be caused by some incompatibility
with QEMM V5.12 so I removed QEMM from the system and still didn't
get anywhere.  

Sincerely,

Grateful for any pointers to a solution.

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