Re: [h-e-w] Re: Dired on windows

[Dr Francis J. Wright]

From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>; "Galen Boyer" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Re: Dired on windows


> Does anyone want to try doing it, or have a better idea for how to do it?
> If not then I might try it myself, but probably not any time very soon.

Some initial experiments yesterday afternoon suggest that this will work.

> Galen: What do you mean by "VNC shares"?  To me, VNC means Virtual Network
> Computing by AT&T Laboratories, Cambridge (UK), the free remote-access
> facility, a bit like Microsoft Remote Desktop, and I don't see what that
has
> to do with shares.  If you mean network shares that are not mapped to
drive
> letters then I don't think WSH provides access to them (does it?), so a
> different approach would be required.

A closer look at the WSH documentation suggests that the FileSystem COM
object provides all the necessary information about local and remote files,
even if the latter are not mapped to drive letters.

Francis