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From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: How well do Sequents and Suns get on?
Message-ID: <1222@kl-cs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 90 11:45:18 GMT
References: <27742@sequent.UUCP>
Organization: University of Keele, England
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From article <27742@sequent.UUCP>, by vandys@sequent.UUCP (Andrew Valencia):
> In article <6120@wolfen.cc.uow.oz> steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Steve Cliffe) writes:
>>I am interested to find out how well Sequents and Suns get along in
>>a networking environment - particularly in terms of NFS and YP.
> 
> 	They get along just fine--we have Suns in-house for just this
> purpose.  And we definitely support both NFS and YP.

Here there is a configuration of a sequent which exports its filesystem
to suns.  One thing to watch out for is the word order of the sequent
is different to the sun.  So most binary data files won't be useable
accross the architectures.

One problem I just bumped into was with named pipes.  It seems that I
can't create a FIFO special device on the filesystem exported from
the sequent to the sun, but I can from a sun exported filesystem to
a sun.  To repeat, log onto your sun and cd to a filesystem exported
from a sequent, type 'mknod fred p' and then do an ls -l.  It should
appear with a 'p' as the first char in the permissions.  However I
always see it as an 'l' (ie a symbolic link).

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