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Easy workaround for bug encounterd by users of the Novell Client for Win
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Nathan Vick |
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Easy workaround for bug encounterd by users of the Novell Client for Windows |
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Thu, 23 Nov 2000 15:29:09 PST8PDT |
Hello,
I just thought I'd share an easy workaround for a problem I was
having. It seems the that my new Novell Netware client (on
Windows 95 and Windows 2000) is still setting my HOME
environment variable to an old-style Novell Netware path, even
though these kinds of paths have not been supported for a long
time. Old Novell Netware clients for DOS used to (somehow) let
you use the cd command at the DOS prompt to change to Novell
Netware network paths. For example you could type the following:
cd server/volume:directory\subdirectory
This, of course, confuses cvs which finds the HOME environment
variable on my computer is set to the following:
HOME=ZEUS/VOL2:USERS\CSS\nvick
When I tried to run cvs.exe, I often got errors like the following:
cvs [commit aborted]: can't chdir(ZEUS/VOL2:USERS\CSS\nvick):
No such file or directory
The simple workaround is to clear the HOME environment variable,
so as to force cvs.exe to use the HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH,
which are being set correctly by the Novell Netware client. Do this
by typing the following at the DOS prompt, or in batch files:
SET HOME=
You can check that this works by typing this:
set
The set command will list all your environment variables. Make
sure the HOME environment variable is not listed, and that the
HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH variables are listed correctly.
Nathan Vick
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* Nathan Vick
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* nvick@capcollege.bc.ca
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