NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/sys/next/sysadmin/5213

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!l5next!scotty
From: [e-mail] (Scott Turner)
Subject: Re: Use of DOS CD-ROMs through Networked OS/2
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Organization: L5 Computing
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 06:49:12 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
(Irving_Wolfe) writes:
|> Our solution -- which worked, hence this posting -- was to get OS/2
|> and its NFS-TCP/IP add-on and a ethernet card for the PC.  Since
|> IBM's OS/2 can emulate both DOS and Windows, as well as running in
|> normal mode as a real operating system, this had turned out to be
|> an inexpensive and robust solution to our problem.  I suspect it
|> may be a reasonable way of dealing with lots of other situations as
|> well, and most of us have a suitable machine sitting around or can
|> acquire one at little cost.
This may seem like a silly question but, what???

If you are using NFS to mount the CD-ROM from the OS/2 machine to a NeXT
machine, why couldn't you just mount the CD-ROM on a NeXT and then use
SoftPC's "net use" command to create a drive letter for it? I do this with
several CD-ROM titles (and thanks to Netware under 3.0 I can even "net use"
CD-ROMs shared via SCSI Express on the Novell file server.)

If you were planning on running a program on the OS/2 machine to gain access
to the disc, then perhaps Desqview/X might work better. This would allow you
to run X on the NeXT to access graphical CD-ROM access software on the DOS
box. I haven't seen such a product for OS/2 (yet)...

Scotty