Re: GLUG: Windows going the linux route ? BIZARRE!!!

["Jonathan Jankelson-Groll" <jonathanjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I concurr - definately Novell and version 1.2 here as well...

C:\WINDOWS>chmod ver
CHMOD.EXE v1.2 - Copyright Novell, Inc.
Format : chmod [-f] mode [drive:][path]filename

On 6 Jul 00, at 5:03, Uri Zalk wrote:

> This is apparently far more OT than we realised.
> It also works on my Win98 Box, but why:
> 
> The culprit, in my case is not MS nor Cygnus
> but Novell!
> 
> There is no ls.com or ls.exe on my drive c:
> My box is connected, however to a NetWare Server.
> (and Samba, and etc.)
> 
> 
> now on MYSERVERNAME_SYS:/PUBLIC
> to which there is a NetWare search path
> I find :
> 
> chmod.exe    46031    10-15-97     1:00a
> chown.exe    45349    10-15-97    12:59a
> ls.exe            56229    10-15-97    12:58a
> 
> All V1.2    Copyright Novell Inc.
> 
> Now, does that clear the mystery or do we have
> different versions of the various tools from different
> vendors?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Uri
> 
> Johnathan Jankelson-Groll wrote:
> 
> 
> >Me too this is getting truly bizzare!
> >ls does indeed work on a dos box on my win98 machine without the
> >cygnus tools installed!!!
> >
> >Cheers
> >Jonathan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On 30 Jun 00, at 9:36, jvrenmo@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >> Mistakenly ... I opened my Win9x, DOS window, and being so used to my
> >> favoroute o/s I typed ls -al,
> >> Got what I wanted, and then realised, I was still in win9x ...weird ...
> So
> >> ... I tried it on a couple of machines here ... and all had it .. all M$
> >> machines have ls -al as a command. Weird .. but good. I kinda laughed at
> >> the whole idea, maybe someone can test it, or gimme some more info ..
> hehe
> >> ...
> >>
> >> C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>ls -al
> >> drw-rw-rw--      0 Wed Jul 28 00:34:08 1999  .
> >> drw-rw-rw--      0 Wed Jul 28 00:34:08 1999  ..
> >> -rw-rw-rw-a    967 Wed May 31 08:25:44 2000  rconsole.pif
> >> dr--r--r---      0 Wed Jul 28 00:37:52 1999  mybrie~1
> >> -rw-rw-rw-a    475 Mon Jun 26 16:56:56 2000  cuteftp.lnk
> >> -rw-rw-rw-a    285 Wed Jul 28 00:54:16 1999  explorer.lnk
> >> -rw-rw-rw-a    337 Wed Jun 07 15:12:30 2000  lotusn~1.lnk
> >> -rw-rw-rw-a    447 Wed Jul 28 11:07:28 1999  qvt-term.lnk
> >> -rw-rw-rw-a    293 Tue Nov 02 11:47:14 1999  authma~1.lnk
> >> -rw-rw-rw-a    458 Thu Oct 28 09:44:02 1999  termin~1.lnk
> >> -rw-rw-rw-a    428 Thu Oct 28 09:45:16 1999  pirch98.lnk
> >> -rw-rw-rw-a    299 Fri Jan 07 16:29:58 2000  ageofe~1.lnk
> >>
> >>
> >> Anycase, it might be me going mad aswell .... had a long night, lotta
> >> drinks ...
> >>
> >>
> [snip]
> 
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