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From: geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP ( R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: NFS availability
Message-ID: <161@eagle_snax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 22:37:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: eagle_sn.161
Posted: Mon Jul 13 22:37:01 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jul-87 03:28:11 EDT
References: <272@wapsyvax.OZ> <1721@umn-cs.UUCP> <671@uhccux.UUCP> <13271@topaz.rutgers.edu>
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Keywords: Sun NFS PC
Summary: how small is small enough?
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In article <13271@topaz.rutgers.edu>, rubin@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mike Rubin) writes:
> In article <671@uhccux.UUCP>, bob@uhccux.UUCP (Bob Cunningham) writes:
> > [...] Also bundled with the current version is a TELNET command with
> > nominal vt100 emulation for the PC (requires ANSI.SYS).

ANSI.SYS is needed only to make the various network utilities look
nice (highlighting hostnames, etc.). Telnet does its own screen update:
it wouldn't be quick enough through ANSI.SYS.
> 
> [...]  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.

Well, how small is small enough? In terms of disk space, all you need on your
boot diskette are DOS, COMMAND.COM, ANSI.SYS, PCNFS.SYS, NET.EXE, your choice
of link level driver, PCNFS.MSG (the messages) and AUTOEXEC.BAT and
CONFIG.SYS. That lot will easily fit on a floppy. Once you're up, you can tell
DOS and PC-NFS both to look on a network drive for their files (via the
COMSPEC and NFSDISK environment variables) and you can then run diskless.

-- 
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Geoff Arnold, Sun Microsystems East Coast Division (home of PC-NFS)
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