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From: manoj@excelan.COM (manoj @ Prod Mktg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: NetBIOS and PS/2
Summary: netbios and os/2
Message-ID: <1404@excelan.COM>
Date: 15 Jun 90 01:52:04 GMT
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Organization: Novell Inc., Open Systems Div., San Jose CA.
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> Yes, OS/2 Extended Editions provide a netbios API, I believe through the 
> communications manager.  And it looks like a dream to work with compared
> to the DOS method with those infernal interrupts and posts.
> 
> >-Will the NetBIOS interface (I'm using Intel's PCLink2 now) be 100%
> > compatible if I use MsDOS on the PS/2 machines?

as far as we know through our IBM contacts,
the netbios shipped with IBM EE 1.2 is not RFC spec 1001, 1002 compliant,
which means that it can only talk to other IBM netbios machines..

in other words, if you are looking for compatibility between different
netbios vendors, look for a standard RFC compliant Netbios.. such as that 
offered by Ungerman-Bass, FTP software, Novell's LAN WorkPlace, 3COM etc..


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