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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ACCESS TO SHARED TAPEDRIVES
Message-ID: <6384@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 87 23:45:54 GMT
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As quoted from <6802@brl-smoke.ARPA> by gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ):
+---------------
| I think a talk and perhaps BOF session would be valuable; UNIX has
| needed some facility like this for ages and it would be good to have
| one (and ONLY one, which must therefore be well-designed) available
| as a standard part of the product.  There are a lot of uses for it
| even in a single-user environment.
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I hate to say this, but the Xenix V/386 machine at work already has such
a facility, and as far as I can tell it will work over the manufacturer's
proprietary network file system as well.
-- 
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