Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!msuinfo!news
From: raisch@convex.cl.msu.edu (R. Raisch)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: SOS Question: Export Devices?
Message-ID: <1990Jul31.154348.13799@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 31 Jul 90 15:43:48 GMT
Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University, East Lansing
Lines: 24

Although I have yet to install SOS on my local net, a question came up
the other day in conversation.  To whit:

	Can SOS export a device, (say COM1:), as an nfs mountable 
	file system?

	I see this working something like this:

		mount host:/dev/com1 /dev/com3  (in Unix parlance)

	So that I could then say:

		copy filename.ext com3:

	Can do?  If not, are there serious technological reasons that
	it can not be done?  Or do the hooks for this not exist?
	(I'd be willing to write them.)

Thanks.  -rr
--
Robert Raisch - TechnoJunkie & UnixNut| UseNet: {uunet,mailrus}!frith!raisch
Control Technology Corporation        | InterNet: raisch@frith.egr.msu.edu 
Hopkinton, MA                         | ICBMNet: 084 28 50 W / 42 43 29 N
"I *have* no ideals.  I lost them on my travels." - Dangerous Liasons