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- From: shava@hermes.oit.unc.edu (Shava Nerad Averett)
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- Subject: Re: MAC Integration
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.213247.24277@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 21:32:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.181607.14733@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> sbk@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
- >The protocol answer is more complex. You can load IPX on your Mac (Dayna sells
- >this) and then you can log into the Novell file server. Or you can load the
- >Mac NLMs on the Novell file server -- it ll then talk AppleTalk -- and your Mac
- >can log into the Novell server as though it were an AppleShare file server.
- >
- You can also buy Insignia's SoftAT and SoftNode and run DOS emulation with
- IPX as a process under the Mac O/S. However, it's about $400 or so, and
- takes a minimum of 2MB of memory to run, and at that is still kind of
- dog slow compared to a "real" PC (386/486...).
-
- >Of course, it sounds like you don't just want file services. It sounds like
- >you also want to the services that WordPerfect Office offers. As far as I know
- >WordPerfect Office is still DOS-only code; last I heard, the Mac version was
- >still in beta test.
-
- Recent MacUser lists WP/Office for under $100 from the mail order catalogs.
- Sounds like the WP folks are out of beta...
-
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