DOSFS_FindUnixName and "unix" filesystem (was: Re: (HELP) ...)

Duane Clark dclark at akamail.com
Thu Aug 29 12:29:55 CDT 2002


Andreas Mohr wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:37:13AM -0700, Duane Clark wrote:
> 
>>Martin Wilck wrote:
>>
>>>In any case this is relatively minor and we can live without. If we
>>>don't patch, we need to be prepared that other people stumble into the
>>>problem I had, though. I am still feeling dumb - my wine development was
>>>practically stuck for 2 months because of that "wine" file.
>>
>>Since I also was stumbled for a long period on a similar problem, due to 
>>specifying a "unix" filesystem, perhaps it would be appropriate in the 
>>documentation to put some large warnings on that option.
> 
> Well, uh, where have you been recently ? ;-)
> That's exactly what we've been doing in several docu places for two years now.
> OK, it may not be specified in every relevant docu, but I'd say that at least
> 40% of all docs tell this story.
> 

Obviously I should have actually looked at the docs before posting that. 
It is clearly spelled out in the important spots. Oh well, now that I 
think about it, it was more than two years ago that I had created the 
config file that had caused the problem for me.






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