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From: jjw@igloo.UUCP (John Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Novell ignores directory structure!
Message-ID: <591@igloo.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 88 23:55:45 GMT
References: <286@intek01.UUCP>
Reply-To: jjw@igloo.UUCP (John Welch)
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Organization: igloo, Northbrook, IL
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Summary: Maybe path-assisting TSRs?

In article <286@intek01.UUCP> mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes:
>We've been experiencing a weird Novell Netware bug.  It sometimes just
>ignores the directory structure completely.  For example, when I remake
>a certain program in one of my directories, the program somehow winds
>up in another directory *on another disk*!
>
>This only seems to happen when there are two files with the same name
>in different directories.  Is anyone else experiencing this?  Do you
>have a fix?

	Do you have any path-fixing TSR programs loaded? I use DPATH30 to
allow me to access Wordstar (yeah, ugh, alright, but I know it) to be able to
find ALL the files. DPATH30 has a mode that will allow you to open, FOR WRITE
ACCESS, a file in a directory specified by the path. Thus, by having PATH set to
C:\;C:\UTIL;C:\DOS, if I were on D: and tried editing AUTOEXEC.BAT, it would
not only come up with C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT, but all the changes would be done to
the file on drive C:, without ever warning me this is happening.

	Don't know if this is your problem, but it might be.



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