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From: zz1he@sdcc19.ucsd.EDU (Heather Ebey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Turbo C and network
Keywords: c network
Message-ID: <211@sdcc19.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 28 Jul 88 15:55:38 GMT
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Organization: University of California, San Diego
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I am having a problem running Turbo C ver. 1.5 under PC-NFS 3.0a;
tc, the Turbo C integrated environment does not recognize the
remote drive, E:, which is on the server.  Per Borland, Lee 
in Technical Services (408)438-5300, the ability to load source 
code from a remote drive was not written into TC.

This makes it real difficult to use in a lab environment.  We
purchased a copy of Turbo C for each PC and loaded it on drive C:.
Students are supposed to keep their homework assignments on 
drive E:.  Drive E: is a remote drive on the server, which is the
the particular user's private, password protected directory.

The Turbo C integrated environment will recognize the remote drive,
E:, but it will not load or save files to the remote drive. NFS shows
a steady blip for about a minute (this means it is attempting to
access something on the server) and then something (TC?) displays
the message "Critical Error, Disk is not ready in drive E.
Retry or Abort" Retry just repeats the same. Abort displays the 
message "Error: Invalit drive or directory. Press ESC."

This problem exists even if I start tc from drive E:.
 
One of the faculty was experimenting with all variations of this
problem and crashed two harddisks.  In view of this, I think I'll
have to take tc out of the microlab.  Too bad, it is such a nice
learning environment.

Has anyone seen this problem? Is there a solution?  A patch?

Heather Ebey
UCSD, ACC MicroLab Manager

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