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From: dpw@rayssd.RAY.COM (Darryl P. Wagoner)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: NFS availability
Message-ID: <1119@rayssd.RAY.COM>
Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 09:27:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: rayssd.1119
Posted: Fri Jul 10 09:27:48 1987
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Sender: dpw@rayssd.RAY.COM (Darryl P. Wagoner @ Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI)
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In article <1920@oliveb.UUCP> jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry F Aguirre) writes:
>In article <1721@umn-cs.UUCP> fischer@umn-cs.UUCP (Scott Fischer) writes:
>>SUN makes a PC-NFS that I'm currently waiting to receive more information
>>on.  I really don't know how well it works or how much it costs, but I 
>>thought I'd mention it.
 
>There is no server mode so you can't do any PC to PC interaction.
>Sending a file from one PC to another would involve using a server as
>and intermediary.  There is NO file transfer command so if you want to
>get something off a host without NFS or something that was not exported
>then you again have to use the NFS host as an intermediary.  NFS is nice
>but a version of ftp would fill in the gaps.
 
The new version, PC-NFS 2.0, does have FTP as well as rcp and rsh.  We have
tested it for everything that we could think of and PC-NFS 2.0 works better
than expected.  The part that doesn't work is the software that 
directly accesses the disk.  I would expect that an FTP or rcp daemon
will be forthcoming.  I have the PC-NFS Toolkit and I can see that
it would not be difficult to write such a daemon.  Of course, since
Messy DOS is single tasking it will tie up the system.
-- 
Darryl Wagoner	Raytheon Co.; Portsmouth RI; (401)-847-8000 x4089

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