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SUBJECT : LOGIN Changes From v1.73b to v2.10
DATE : 05/25/90
FYI # : 052890rr
OS VERSION : 2.15 and 3.0
REVISION : C and A respectively
SHELL VERSION :
GENERAL
INFORMATION : Syntax changes have occured between LOGIN.EXE v1.73b and the
latest - v2.10.
PROBLEM : Formerly questionable syntax and procedures behave
differently with this new version of LOGIN. I have
noticed the following so far:
SET COMSPEC - works if you follow the book exactly, but before you
could say SET COMSPEC=S2:COMMAND.COM or SET COMSPEC
s2:COMMAND.COM and a few other variations without an error.
ATTACH - two changes have been noticed
1. ATTACH <servername>/ was formerly acceptable
syntax for attaching as the same username with
the same password. LOGIN v2.10 rejects this line
as a syntax error.
2. ATTACHing to a server you are already attached to
used to result in a message similar to:
"Already attached to server <servername>"
In the current LOGIN it appears to attempt to
reattach, causing the currently mapped drives to
that server to be lost, or remapped to root.
SOLUTION : Tighten up the syntax in the scripts (not a pretty
picture if your user has lots of user scripts; the
Norton TS utility is handy for finding where work
is needed). To work around the repeated ATTACH problem,
you can use a login script fragment like this (assume
my server is called FS1, and the server to attach to
is FS2):
rem ** this is at the begining of the script **
DOS SET FS2="N"
rem ** you can replace every occurance of ATTACH FS2
rem ** with the following code:
rem
rem ** NOTE: this uses two features that are new to
rem ** LOGIN v2.10 - the ability to test against
rem ** DOS environment variables, as well as
rem ** nested IF-THEN's. It won't work with any
rem ** earlier versions.
If <FS2>="N" then BEGIN
Attach FS2
If "%ERROR_LEVEL" = "0" then DOS SET FS2="Y"
END
COMMENTS: These sort of things are what give NetWare 386 the
reputation of not being totally compatible with
NetWare 286. Hopefully, the fact that this version
of LOGIN is included with the popular new shells for
DOS will help put the issue in the correct court.
YOUR NAME AND DEPT. : Rob Rawson - National Account SE, Paramus
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( ) This information has been verified.
(XX) This is useful information, but has not been verified.