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From: srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dr. Srodawa)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: PD PC-NFS
Message-ID: <2884@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 5 Sep 90 03:14:26 GMT
References: <9008311436.aa19497@louie.udel.edu> <1491@wet.UUCP>
Reply-To: srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dr. Srodawa)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI
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In article <1491@wet.UUCP> epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>In article <9008311436.aa19497@louie.udel.edu>
>	ROsman%ASS%SwRI05@D15VS178A.SPACE.SWRI.EDU writes:
>>Is there any such thing?  I know that there's a number of Public Domain 
>>Drivers.  Is the NFS spec public?
>
>There are "free" NFS servers, but I've yet to see a PD NFS
>client.  The spec is public--RFC 1094+RFC 1057+RFC 1014.
>
>					-=EPS=-

This was true until a few weeks ago.  In the public announcement for
BSD4.3-reno it is stated that a PD NFS is included--both client and server.
It was written independently using the RFCs as the only source of
information.






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