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From: rubin@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mike Rubin)
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Subject: Re: NFS availability
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Date: Sun, 12-Jul-87 01:44:18 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 12 01:44:18 1987
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In article <671@uhccux.UUCP>, bob@uhccux.UUCP (Bob Cunningham) writes:
> The Sun NFS for PCs does indeed work, and---in my opinion---very well.
....
> Also bundled with the current version is a TELNET command with
> nominal vt100 emulation for the PC (requires ANSI.SYS).

Also bundled with the copy of PC-NFS we just got is "rsh", which is
real useful if you want to keep your PC files under (say) SCCS on the
server.  The only problem with PC-NFS is that it's a client-only NFS
implementation, i.e. nothing from outside can see files on the PC's
disk; this means you can't really do remote backups of the PC's (the
PC user must issue a command to dump his files down to the server,
which hopefully has enough empty disk space) and you can't share files
among PC's.  I don't know if PC-NFS is small enough to usefully run on
a floppy-only PC, where it would make the most sense.

--Mike Rubin	Timeplex, Inc.	rutgers!timeplex!mrubin