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- Subject: Re: Wanted: PD NFS client for DOS
- Message-ID: <19251.2afe2c3e@levels.unisa.edu.au>
- From: ccdps@levels.unisa.edu.au
- Date: 9 Nov 92 09:15:42 +1030
- References: <BwuKs4.5xJ@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> <1992Nov3.021543.8706@spectrum.xerox.com>
- Organization: University of South Australia
- Lines: 27
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- In article <1992Nov3.021543.8706@spectrum.xerox.com>, leisner@wrc.xerox.com ( Marty Leisner) writes:
- > Erick Engelke (erick@demorgan.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
- > : jbvb@ftp.com writes:
- > : >
- > : > Is there a PD NFS client that I can use on my PC to get to the disk
- > : > on Unix? ... Alternativly, is there a good reason why something
- > : > like this hasn't been written and put in the Public Domain?
- > : >
- > : >Writing/testing/debugging a DOS I/O redirector is a longer process than
- > : >you might think, and debugging everyone's oddball DOS-abusing application
- > :
- > : So suppose we convince several schools to support these people, I
- >
- > I don't like shareware, I think freeware is much more useful and more productive
- > (and generally works much better -- there ain't shareware like X Windows or GNU).
-
- etc etc.
-
- Excuse me, but isn't SOSS more or less what the original poster was looking
- for? And whether or not this is the case, if you want to get some idea of
- what is involved with writing a NFS, try eavesdropping on the network
- channels of the Linux project.
-
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