Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!inpnms!logan From: logan@inpnms.UUCP (James Logan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: PC-Interface, have you used it? Summary: Yes Message-ID: <188@inpnms.UUCP> Date: 19 Oct 89 22:25:57 GMT References: Reply-To: logan@inpnms.UUCP (James Logan) Distribution: na Organization: Data General Telecommunications, Rockville, MD Lines: 46 In article larry@focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson) writes: # Interactive markets a product called PC-Interface. It works in # conjuction with a ms-dos package called DOS Bridge. This package # "provides a transparent integration of the DOS and Unix systems". # # Has anyone used this package? # # It sounds like it provides all the features of NFS and rlogin rolled # into one package. Is this true? Yes. I used it back in '85. Very nice package back then, it must have improved quite a bit in the past 4 years. It allowed a DOS user to connect to a server daemon on one or more UNIX host. Each host was assigned its own virtual drive under DOS. On the UNIX side, the server that was forked by the daemon would change to your home directory initially, so you wouldn't start writing all over the root partition. All regular DOS commands worked as usual. It came with a few DOS commands that imitated "ls" and "chmod" too. The only thing it was lacking at the time was the ability to run a UNIX command from DOS. Maybe they have added that, I don't know. It would have been nice to have been able to use a command, like "unix" that ran its arguments as a command. Commands like: C:\> unix mailx would have been useful. I don't think it would have been that difficult to implement. It does work over the serial line as well. You get a DOS terminal window so you can dial up the host and login as usual, then you invoke an executable, hit a function key on the PC, and you're connected as you would be using TCP/IP, although much slower. -Jim -- James Logan UUCP: uunet!inpnms!logan Data General Telecommunications Inet: logan%inpnms@uunet.uu.net (301) 590-3069