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From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
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Subject: Re: PCNFS vs PC/TCP
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Date: 12 Nov 90 04:16:19 GMT
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In article <9010311943.AA12833@ftp.com> jbvb@ftp.com writes:
>We support more hardware drivers, including 802.5.  PC/TCP+ has more
>applications than PC-NFS, but you may not need an ICMP-based PING,
>3270/VT220 multi-session telnet, or a multi-connection FTP server.  We
>don't have a news reader in 2.05, and I don't think Sun has one either.

There are two news readers for PC-NFS. Once is based on the RED package from
MIT and the other is more sophisticated. Both are available via ftp from
bcm.tmc.edu (look in the NFS directory). They could probably be made to 
run under PC/TCP, but I don't have PC/TCP development environment. The
sources to the two packages will be made available this Christmas, so you
can do it yourself then. 

>You can get a version of CUTCP which runs with PC-NFS, but Clarkson's
>present policies won't allow the creation of one which runs with PC/TCP.
>Many aftermarket products (X servers, fancy terminal emulators, databases)
>are available for both transport stacks - ask the vendor.  Our development
>environment is for MSC 5.1 and is usable with 6.0, Sun's is for MSC 4.0.

Actually, I build PC-NFS applications using MSC 5.1. One minor change is needed
to one header file in the PC-NFS toolkit. I have also used MSC 6.0 with good
success thus far. Sun will provide the documentation on the header change if
you want to do this.

PC-NFS does not allow a large number of sockets to be open at one time. This 
makes X servers kinda hard to use. PC/TCP allows many more open sessions.

>Sun Lifeline mail uses POP2 to talk to a server Sun supplies with the
>package.  I don't know if it is in binary form or not, but you'll need
>source to make it run on other machines.  I assume that it can use a
>freeware POP2 server as well. 

Sun provides the source to the POP2 daemon. Once that works with LifeLine and
with the Mac POPmail stack is available from bcm.tmc.edu in the nfs directory.
[There is one extension for LifeLine and a couple for POPmail that needed to
be included.]


By the way, you might want to look at the newsgroup "comp.protocols.nfs"
There are frequent discussions about the various PC products that implement
the NFS client protocols.

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