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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: NFS Support for DOS
Message-ID: <26558@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 89 01:36:36 GMT
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In article <409@datran2.uunet> smb@datran2.uunet (Steven M. Boker) writes:
|We have been using PC-NFS from SUN microsystems to connect our DOS
|...
|straightforward and the utilities to be adequate. 

I would add to this that the utilities are only barely adequate and
the printer support is lousy. You only get one telnet session and ftp
has a ridiculously low limit on the number of files you can ask it
for. Telnet doesn't know how to use VGA or Super-VGA so you're stuck
with the 24x80 terminal model. 

The printer support is almost useless if you plan to use it with real
applications like Microsoft Word (unless you customize it) or
Microsoft Windows. There's a disagreement about end of job (MS uses
^D, Sun gets confused by it) that makes me wish I had a Macintosh
every time I print with PC-NFS. 

I think some people in my group got bit by group permission problems
using NFS but I don't know the details. 
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Phil Ngai, phil@diablo.amd.com		{uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
"The government is not your mother."