Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!mirror!mguyott
From: mguyott@mirror.TMC.COM (Marc Guyott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Novell Netware.
Message-ID: <18371@mirror.TMC.COM>
Date: 28 Sep 88 17:52:51 GMT
Reply-To: mguyott@prism.TMC.COM (Marc Guyott)
Organization: Mirror Systems, Cambridge Mass.
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In article <554@flyer.apctrc.UUCP> you write:
>Tulsa, Oklahoma
>Keywords: 
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>Is there some general philosophy regarding Netware vs. DOS?  Can anyone
>point me in the direction of some good documentation on Novell's approach
>to life?  The manuals which came with the Netware are really designed only
>for administering and using the system at a user level?  Thanks in advance...

You might consider purchasing the Novell API references (two volumes) for
$25.00 each.  Netware and DOS are like oil and water.  Netware formats the
harddisk on the server using it's own format and it is very different from
DOS.  DOS is allowed to run on the file server as a guest operating system.
My guess is that the Norton Utilities by pass the DOS calls and go right to
the harddisk this would cause Norton to see things that it did not understand.

                                                Marc
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