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From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
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Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 and PC-NFS?????
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Date: 31 Aug 90 13:50:15 GMT
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Reply-To: geoff@east.sun.com (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
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If you wish to use Windows 3.0 and PC-NFS, I recommend that you run
DOS 3.x. There is at least one place in Windows where the system
issues a different sequence of DOS calls for the two versions, and
the DOS 4.x sequence relies upon an undocumented side-effect
which the PC-NFS redirector doesn't (yet) emulate correctly.
(And yes, I have told Microsoft, and they were apologetic, but....)

Obviously we'll fix this, but for now DOS 3.x is the best bet.

As for the extra drives, the stuff about using the "/dNN" switch has
been hacked to death in these groups.

Geoff

-- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM)   --
   *** "Now is no time to speculate or hypothecate, but rather a time ***
   *** for action, or at least not a time to rule it out, though not  ***
   *** necessarily a time to rule it in, either." - George Bush       ***