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From: TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET (Thomas Dwyer III)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Correction on Beame NFS posting
Message-ID: <90312.133730TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 8 Nov 90 18:37:29 GMT
Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
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Well, I must apologize for my incorrect postings about Beame's BWNFS.  As
Carl pointed out, there *is* a program, BWTIME, which sets the PC clock.
Although there is no mention of this command in TFM, I should have looked
more closely at the programs supplied on disk, esp. when I saw that Carl
does support configuration for a time server.

As for my posting about printing, BWNFS does have a hotkey combination to
flush the print queue.  I do however, still prefer Sun's idea of using drive
letters as windows to the print queue, which BWNFS does not support.  While
still on the subject of printing, I should add that I am very impressed with
Beame's NET PRTSETUP command, which will send a string (or the contents of
a specified file) to the printer before all print jobs.  This allows
printer initialization strings, etc to be sent before the actual file.


All in all, I think Beame has a very good product.  If Sun cannot improve
its current system, especially the ditty with serial numbers, BWNFS looks
like the way to go.


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