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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Paul Everlund wrote:
> Is an MS-DOS-program able make a DOS-system call, to ask the
> size of a file, which resides on a Samba server? The Samba
> server is mounted on a FreeBSD file system.
> 
> If it can't, what will the effects be? A disconnection of
> the network drive the MS-DOS-computer has set up with use?
> At least that's what's happening, and I would like to know
> if any DOS-system call might be responsible for this. I
> personally think this could be the case, but I'm not sure.
> 

If you have a samba shared resource mounted into your win32 filesystem you 
should be able to make any relevant system call on any file residing on it 
I believe. This sounds like more of a question for a dos or win32 
developer's newsgroup. You may not find many people here with any 
experience using MS-DOS system calls ...

Then again, I could be wrong ;-)

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