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From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: How do file servers work?
Message-ID: <1990Jun11.123830.5716@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 11 Jun 90 12:38:30 GMT
References: <30686@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Not around here, pal!
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In article <30686@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
$Do the people that implement file servers just intercept all INT 21h
$requests and process those that refer to the server, or is there a
$better way?

   That's the way the all work, as far as I know.  Certainly that's how the
Novell system I'm running at work does it.  It isn't a terribly hard task,
it's just that there are a lot of calls you have to intercept and treat
separately.
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