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to: Leonard Erickson
from: Lee Aroner
date: 1999-10-27 06:56:00
subject: Newbie

 -=> Quoting Lee Aroner to Leonard Erickson <=-

 LE> Actually, under at least some versions of DOS the limits are a bit
 > broader. We had a LAN that ran under DOS 2.x. And you could not only
 > have drives A-Z, but also @:, [:, and ]: I'm not sure if it allowed \:,
 > ^: or _:.

 LA> T'was the NetWare redirector that enabled drive ID's beyond Z... 
 LA> so far as I know, no other NOS allowed that.

LE> No, this was NESTAR, not Netware. The server ran UCSD p-System as the OS.


   Ah, an oldie.

   I was reminded today that OS/2 also has the capability to handle 
   drive assignments through "]" in, apparently for use by the 
   Netware client.

                                       LRA


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