Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!randvax!cave From: cave@randvax.UUCP (Jonathan Cave) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: WIN3 + PC-NFS Keywords: win3 nfs Message-ID: <2689@randvax.UUCP> Date: 30 Aug 90 15:41:54 GMT References: <717@tuura.UUCP> <4989@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> <9126@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Reply-To: cave@rand-unix.UUCP (Jonathan Cave) Distribution: comp Organization: RAND Corp., Santa Monica, Ca. Lines: 25 I have been running PC-NFS and Windows together for a while, with partial success. Telnet sessions are no problem if one remembers to create a .pif file that specifies exclusive operation. I have also built .pifs to do background mail check (browse.exe the mail spooler), incorporate mail (rsh the telnet inc command), read mail, etc. the problem comes when I try to rsh other commands, including the supposedly telnet-recognized sendmail, let alone other commands built into my Unix C shell on the Sun. When I try to run the commands, I get dumped back to the Dos prompt. Windows is dead, telnet is dead. "exit" does nothing. A RAM check shows 404K, which means that PC-NFS and Win3 are still in there (both drivers and program). If I rerun Win3 I get a crippled session that locks up w/o warning, requiring hard reboot. Now the size of the RAM may have you asking, "what miniscule system is this dude running, anyhow?" Its a Compaq 386/20e with 4M linear memory, VGA, 110M HD, 1.2M floppy, MS mouse, 80387 and Etherlink II comm. board. PC-NFS PC-NFS connects me to a bunch of SparCs running the usual Unix. I have a permanent swapfile, so Win3 tells me I have 10939K of memory available (lying toad -- I can't load anything using more than 404K, though I am sure I could run it if it loaded -- but that's another problem:-(). Any help with this problem would be appreciated. I'd ask for tech. help, but the MS-Sun war makes it hard to find a knowledgable and disinterested party to ask. Oh, well, at least I'm not trying to run Novell:-)