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From: stone@quest.UUCP (Scott Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS problem with MS-DOS v 4.0
Message-ID: <7354@quest.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 89 23:18:44 GMT
References: <13284@garnet.BBN.COM> <1989Dec6.032259.25906@sobmips.UUCP>
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Organization: Quest Research Inc., Burnsville, MN
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roe@sobmips.UUCP (r.peterson) writes:
>From article <13284@garnet.BBN.COM>, by hlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison):
>> We just recently upgraded a PC system to MS-DOS v 4.0 and
>> discovered a variety of problems, such as, a DIR on a
>> remote volume producing an "Invalid Function" message;
>> inability to examine or copy any files (we get Drive not Ready
>> messages), and other wonderful such things.
>> 
>> Has anyone else seen this?

>Yup.

>> Is there a fix other than going back to DOS 3.3?

>Nope.

>General commentary on the current state of MSDOS4.0 - its' shot full of
>bugs in many places, and should be avoided.

Well, Roe... What a useless commentary (just my opinion).  I don't imagine
that this helped him much at all.  I guess it did allow you to state
your opinion on MS-DOS though, which was nearly as useful.  
*sigh*  Anyway...

Herb, Call SUN at 1-800-USA-4-SUN (1-800-872-4786), and ask for help
on this.  I asked them, and they suggested that the latest release (3.0.1)
of PC-NFS was necessary to work with MS-DOS 4.0.  After I called them, I
installed PC-NFS 3.0.1, (and the new pcnfsd that came with it onto the
server), on a 386 based PC with MS-DOS 4.0.  It works great.  If there
are bugs (?) I haven't found them yet... 
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