From: Gary Welles 

Would it possible to flag a remote drive as local to overcome
a problem with 4DOS?

I have been unable to copy or move files from a remote drive
with 4DOS.  According to JP Software, beginning with v7.01,
4DOS will no longer copy from remote unless it can first lock
the remote file.

It is easily worked around as _any_ other copy utility will
work regardless.  Only 4DOS locks itself out (details below).

-- Gary Welles

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Mapping with Novell Personal Netware, files won't be locked
unless SHARE.exe is installed on the remote system.  Without
SHARE on the remote host:

  C:\NWCLIENT>copy e:\wsx.pat
  e:\wsx.pat => c:\nwclient\wsx.pat
  Lock violation "e:\wsx.pat"
       0 files copied

Using DESQview/X's remote drive TSR to map drives 4DOS fails
only when run on DR-DOS:

  C:\COPY_LOC>copy e:\copy_rmt\trial.doc
  e:\copy_rmt\trial.doc => c:\copy_loc\trial.doc
  Access denied "e:\copy_rmt\trial.doc"
       0 files copied

With 4DOS on MS-DOS 7.10, the remote DV/X DR-DOS machine
reports the files were opened in Mode "ISF R" with 4DOS and
"ISW R" with DOS XCOPY:

  4DOS: COPY d:\create.com

   Filename      Handles Mode    Attr    Date      Time    Owner
   CREATE  COM   1       ISF R   ......  01/07/99  07:03a  0c58


  DOS: XCOPY d:\dconvrt2.exe

   Filename      Handles Mode    Attr    Date      Time    Owner
   DCONVRT2EXE   1       ISW R   ......  01/07/99  07:03a  0c58
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