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From: pasquale@sgl (Pasquale Leone)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Desqview/X
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Date: 16 Nov 90 16:01:28 GMT
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In article <9011131403.aa12146@louie.udel.edu> SCEF0003@WSUVM1.CSC.WSU.EDU ("James N. Petersen") writes:
>In the pull-out article on DesqView/X in the IBM special issue of BYTE
>it says that DesqView/X will work over Ethernet connections with
>FTP Software.  Are they using this in a generic sense, or are they actually
>saying that it will work only with PC/TCP from FTP Software, Inc.  Anyone
>with insight?

My understanding from carefully reading the insert  is that DesqView/X
does NOT use any tcp/ip product directly. What it needs is a small driver
that provides the interface to a third party network driver such as the
tcp/ip that is made by FTP inc. 

Look at page 29 of the insert, section 6.3 " The Network Software Product".
It is also states that a driver (Network Software Product) will be available
for Novell networks.
My question is, can the company that provides the network software also
provide us with the interface (Network Software Product) to DesqView/X?
When I buy DesqView/X I would like to use it over my BW-NFS network.

Why isn't there a DesqView newsgroup?

pasquale@sgl.ists.ca