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From: ljt@sppy00.UUCP (TOMS LAURA)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: TCP/IP for DOS software packages
Keywords: NFS TCP/IP DOS
Message-ID: <1026@sppy00.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 90 16:05:29 GMT
Organization: Online Computer Library Center, Dublin, Ohio.
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I am in the process of evaluating TCP/IP for DOS packages, and so far
my findings have been rather discouraging.  So far I've done preliminary
testing on SUN's PC-NFS, Wollongong's WIN/TCP and PathWay, FTP Software's
PC/TCP and InterDrive, and Beame & Whiteside's product.  

SUN's PC-NFS looks terrific, but ideally we'd like to be able to unload
network drivers from memory without rebooting.

The other three packages seem terrifically buggy regarding network drive
compatibility.  To be specific, when we mount remote directories to look
like DOS disk drives and then run simple DOS commands to manipulate the
files, things break.  It's not hard to hang the PC with either the
Wollongong or the FTP Software product.  Beame & Whiteside's stuff did
much better, except that we couldn't access files in UNIX directories
that had long UNIX names mapped to PC-style names by the software.  That's
somewhat of a problem!  And one of these packages managed to screw up the
file system on the NeXT we're using for testing.

Has anyone else had any of these experiences?  Just looking for a sanity
check here.

Thanks!
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