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- There are always at least two ways to do anything right.
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- When the Netware MAP creates a search drive, it points the
- corresponding drive letter to the specified directory and adds
- the drive letter to the DOS path. In doing so, it adds the
- string similar to "Z:." to the path to represent the new devise
- for DOS's file search process. The "." in "Z:." specifies the
- CURRENT directory which Z is pointing to. If a user changes the
- current directory, the path is also effectively changed. There
- is nothing wrong with that if the user understands what they are
- doing; some do not. NETPATH is a little way to simplify life on
- a Netware LAN for the DOS user (and the Systems Administrator).
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- NETPATH searches memory for the master DOS path string and
- modifies it. For each search mapping in the path, NETPATH
- modifies the path to specify the entire directory string each
- search mapping is currently pointing to. For example, if the
- current DOS path is "C:\dos;c:\;z:.;" and Z: is currently
- pointing to SYS:PUBLIC when NETPATH is run, the path will be
- "C:\dos;c:\;z:\PUBLIC;" when NETPATH is finished.
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- How does it do that you ask? NETPATH WILL SEARCH ONLY FOR
- THE STRING ":." IN THE PATH. When it finds that string, it gets
- the character in front of it, identifies the directory the drive
- letter is pointing to and inserts the directory into the DOS
- path. This may not be fool proof but it works for me.
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- Once the path includes the directories corresponding to the
- drive letters, changing the current directory of a drive mapping
- will not change the file search process of DOS. This convention
- for the structure of the search path is not necessarily a better
- way of doing things, just a different way which most users seem
- to be accustomed to.
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- NETPATH may be included in the login script using the "#"
- symbol to execute an external program after all of the drive
- mappings have been created. I have been using it with Netware
- 386 v3.1 and with MS-DOS versions 3.3 and 4.01. I hope it makes
- your life easier for you as it has for me.
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- The following copyrights and trademarks apply:
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- Novell Advanced Netware is product of Novell, Inc.
- PC-DOS is a product of IBM, Inc.
- MS-DOS is a product of MicroSoft, Inc.
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- Legal Stuff Disclaimer:
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- This product is supplied without any warranty of any kind with
- regard to this material including, but not limited to, the
- implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
- particular purpose. I shall not be liable for errors contained
- herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection
- with furnishing, performance, or use of this product.
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- License:
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- You are free to use NETPATH for your own personal use. It is
- so simple, I cannot justify asking for a fee. It is "shareware".
- I hope it someday becomes obsolete and I hope you pass along
- something of your own creation for someone else's benefit. You
- may copy and distribute NETPATH and the accompanying
- documentation provided no fee is charged other than the copying
- of the media. This includes posting NETPATH on Bulletin board
- systems and information services.
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- You may NOT modify NETPATH in any way or distribute NETPATH
- without this documentation.
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- I welcome your suggestions, questions and your bugs/abnormality
- reports, via a message on Compuserve (Steve Griffee 72377,2036).
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