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- From: h198@hosp.med.umich.edu (Gene Mangum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Banyan VINES & OS/2 2.0
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 21:21 EDT
- Organization: Univ of Michigan Hospitals
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- Message-ID: <19930105212134.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu>
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- In Article <C0E5yC.Ep@dragon.dsh.org> "gary@dragon.dsh.org (Gary D. Duzan)" says:
- > In article <C0Cvs7.EE3@mach1.wlu.ca> dbrown4@mach1.wlu.ca (david brown s) writes:
- > >Anyone hear any hints or rumours as to when Banyan will come out with an
- > >OS/2 2.0 driver? All I've heard so far from Banyan is 'real soon now'.
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- > The latest word I hear from our VAR is that OS/2 2.0 support
- > will be added in Vines 5.5, which is due out this month. There may
- > be some support in 5.0, but Banyan hasn't made an official statement
- > on the issue. There will NOT be OS/2 2.0 support in 4.x. However,
- > I'm running beta drivers with 4.11(5) right now. It only supports
- > OS/2 apps, so you can't run Vines-aware DOS or Windows apps with
- > it. However, DOS and Windows sessions can access Vines drives and
- > printers. The full support is supposed to let you run DOS and
- > Windows Vines programs, but they've had a hard time getting it to
- > work.
- > Corrections/comments from Banyan reps are welcome.
-
- [.sig deleted]
-
- Well, I'm not a Banyan rep, but... :-)
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- I was able to get a few Vines-aware programs running with the LA-2
- drop of Vines (I'm running on 5.00(5)), but there's an annoying bug
- which is preventing about 4-5 other people from converting to OS/2 :-(((
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- Gene Mangum
- Univ of Michigan Hospitals
-