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From: mra@srchtec.uucp (Michael Almond)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: PD PC-NFS
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Date: 5 Oct 90 14:17:30 GMT
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In article <9010031749.aa22040@Mercury.TWG.COM> ljm@MERCURY.TWG.COM writes:
>
>>>	(1) Does a PD version of Sun's PC-NFS Client exist?
>>>
>...is not the NFS, it's writing the redirector.  Actually, it is fairly
>straightforward to write an NFS client *application* from the RFCs
>(NFS - 1094, RPC - 1057, XDR - 1014 for those who care).  I'm sure the
>UNIX client code will be of some use in clarifying the RFCs, but its
>existance doesn't mean that a PD NFS client for DOS is right around the
>corner.

I've heard the term redirector before and assume you mean routines which
intercept OS requests to a drive and hand them over to the NFS routines.
If this is what you mean by redirector, couldn't you use some ramdisk software
as a starting point?

(BTW, I'm very interested in writing this software.  IMHO PC networking software
is over priced.)


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