Bart Oldeman wrote:
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> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Not long ago, I discovered that a samba mounted disk in a directory, could be
> > linked to the /var/lib/dosemu/drives directory and be seen by applications under
> > dosemu. I use MSDOS 5.0. My question is: using this method, is there any
> > limitation about disk size?
>
> We just had a discussion about this on this list: though from DOS'
> point of view it is a network drive and the size is not important (since
> open/read/write/close/etc file commands get translated into Linux
> commands, which samba then once again transforms towards the "real" file
> server), the limit is application-dependend: many DOS applications check
> free space and get confused if there is more than 2GB. Others may work
> fine. In general, staying below 2GB is safe, but this is not a hard limit.
Thankyou. I didn't realize that linking under drives/ is equivalent to LREDIR
from within the dosemu box. I wonder if it'll be safe to use foxpro for dos apps
(version 2.5) in these disks, since I saw a discussion here lately saying foxpro
2.6 wouldn't like network drives within dosemu. What do you think?
Regards,
Haroldo.
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