Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!pawl!shadow From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: DNET for SYS V Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 89 20:57:01 GMT References: <907@corpane.UUCP> <15512@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Distribution: na Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 27 In-reply-to: sjorr@rose.waterloo.edu's message of 30 Jul 89 13:50:44 GMT On 30 Jul 89 13:50:44 GMT, sjorr@rose.waterloo.edu (Stephen Orr) said: Deven> The problem with DNet under SysV Unix is that it depends Deven> heavily on Unix-domain sockets in its current implementation. Deven> You'd really need a replacement. For a SysV machine with TCP Deven> sockets available, that could work. ... Stephen> Isn't the Amiga 2500UX going to support sockets in Stephen> their version of Sys V?. This alone would be a good reason to Stephen> port DNet to Sys V, picture two Amiga moving data back and Stephen> forth between operating systems. This might be a good Stephen> (temporary?) solution to the problem of moving data back and Stephen> forth. (Unless CA has solved that one already!) Or, consider running SLIP from an Amiga under Exec to one under Amix. Whether sockets will be supported in Amix, I don't know. What _type_ of sockets such would be is equally a mystery. Anyone at CATS care to enlighten? Deven -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2214 12th Street, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 271-0750 Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.