Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!math.lsa.umich.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!PCMAIL!ADT From: adt@PCMAIL.VIRGINIA.EDU Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell Subject: Reserved Words in NetWare Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 90 13:51:00 GMT Sender: Novell LAN Interest Group Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group Lines: 36 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM.BITNET Gateway X-Cc: novell@suvm.bitnet Here's some more info on the problem NetWare seems to have with files with four-letter names starting with 'NE'. The Novell Technical Info DataBase lists 'NETW' as a reserved word. If you examine your list of installed device drivers after IPX and NETx are loaded, you can see a driver containing those letters. Here's a listing of what of versions, etc. (from Novell's NVER): --------------------------------------------------------------- IPX Version: 2.01 SPX Version: 1.01 LAN Driver: Packet Driver V2.01 (890427) BYU Copyright 1989 V1.00 Packet Driver Interface. Find Interrupt. Shell: V2.15 Rev. C DOS: MSDOS V4.00 on IBM_PC FileServer: ACC1 Novell SFT NetWare 286 TTS V2.15 Rev. C (08/22/89) FileServer: ACC3 Novell SFT NetWare 286 TTS V2.15 Rev. C (08/22/89) ---------------------------------------------------------------- I think it's a bug, but then that's easy for me to say. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Townsend | Bitnet : adt@virginia.edu Microcomputer Support Coordinator | Bellnet : 804-924-7567 Academic Computing Center | USPSnet : Gilmer Hall University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | 22903 -------------------------------------------------------------------------