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- From: shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk (Leo Smith)
- Subject: Re: BWNFS V PC-NFS
- Reply-To: shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 09:36:00 +0000
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- >+Subject : What are the advantages and disadvantages of B+Wnfs vs SunPCNFS?
- curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch) writes..
-
- >What are the advantages and disadvantages of B+W NFS vs SunPCNFS?
-
- >I'm mainly interested in design issues in the latest versions of
- >both. I assume differences in design exist? Not trying to start a
- >flame war.
-
-
- B & W uses DOS devices to access the sockets: This means that the
- code (like the Novell Nee Excelan) sits well under Windows 3 etc. It
- is also very small, and pretty fast.
-
- IMHO the emulator is even worse than PC-NFS advanced telnet.
-
- It also is a bit quirky: it does things its own way. For instance
- print redirection doesn't work with some versions of SCO NFS because
- in a fit of elegance, the designers of BWNFS decided to use the IP
- address (in Ascii) plus a decimal point plus a three digit number as a
- temporary filename. the pcnfsd of SCO (designed to work with PC-NFS,
- who after all invented the beast, and ought to be regarded as some
- kind of de-facto standard) adds a further decimal point and a .spl
- extension before printing - or would if the SCO operating system
- would allow a filename of that total length....
-
- This interoperability problem is firmly identified as a 'bug in SCO'
- by Beame and Whiteside.
-
- I hope this helps to indicate some of the braod differences in
- approach between SUN and Beame and Whiteside. Sun moves slowly and
- grinds exceedingly small: The architectire is VERY dated, but its
- been made to work passably well, and validated against most things.
- Beame and Whiteside started from a better place, but sometimes it
- frankly just doesn't work.
-
- If you are preapred to hack code about and get your own daemons up
- and running on the Unix end, then Carls code is great fun and good
- value.
-
- If you want a complete commercial package, with good manuals and -
- lets face it - the industry standard - and are prepared to accept the
- size and the extreme difficulty of programming the beast under
- Windows then PC-NFS is a fine product.
-
-