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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!stl!robobar!ibmpcug!gtoal
- From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Archie to DOS connection
- Message-ID: <Btt8B2.IJA@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 18:49:49 GMT
- References: <1992Aug30.094109.8027@brt.deakin.edu.au>
- Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
- Lines: 18
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- In article <1992Aug30.094109.8027@brt.deakin.edu.au> gjocc@brt.deakin.edu.au writes:
- :I would like to network my A5000 and PC clone together in some fashion.
- :
- :I am running OS/2 2.0 on the PC and would like to file serve the A5000.
- :
- :One solution would be an ethernet card in each machine and run Acorns
- :TCP/IP stuff and IBMs TCP/IP stuff respectively.
- :
- :The cost of the software and hardware to do this seems to be a little bit
- :expensive.
-
- How expensive? Aren't PC ether cards around seventy quid? That's
- what I use, with SOSS (Stan's Own Server) - a PD NFS server - on the
- DOS end. If it's just file transfer you want, any of the free ftp's
- would do too.
-
- G
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