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From: prk@planet.bt.co.uk (Peter Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: WIN3 + PC-NFS
Keywords: win3 nfs
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Date: 28 Aug 90 14:36:58 GMT
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pilger@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Eric Pilger) writes:

>A quick call to the helpful people at Sun revealed the following
>solutions:

>1.) starting pcnfs.sys with a "/f#" switch (where # is the number of
>virtual drives desired), coupled with "lastdisk=<letter>" where
><letter> is whatever your last real disk is, plus #, eliminates all
>those awful extra drives in the file manager.

>2.) printing to lpt1.os2 and lpt2.os2 (instead of lpt1 and lpt2) gets
>printing to work.  Apparently microsoft just got too clever for
>themselves once again.

Thank you, I shall try that.

>I have never had any trouble with PC-NFS.  I haven't tried any telnet
>sessions under windows though.

I have, it works okay for about two minutes, then crashes Windows and Telnet
at the same time....

Peter Knight
BT Research
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