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From: robk@cpqhou.uucp (Rob Kiesler)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Does LANmanager support DOS?
Message-ID: <1990Dec05.165911.16610@cpqhou.uucp>
Date: 5 Dec 90 16:59:11 GMT
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in article <34040@netnews.upenn.edu>, tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Anthony Olejnik) says:
> Originator: tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu
> 
> 
> I havn't been keeping up with Lan Manager's status lately.
> So please pardon me if this is stupid, but:
> 
> 	Does LAN manager support DOS?
>         If so, whose implementation of LAN manager?
> 
> Looking over some old literature, I see many references to
> MicroSoft's Lan Manager supporting OS/2.  But I don't
> see anything on DOS.
> 
> Any help would be *GREATLY* appreciated.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> --tony
LANMAN 2.0 does support DOS. DOS machines can only be workstations, 
they cannot be servers. I've only used the generic (OEM?!?!) version of
LANMAN, but I would assume that all vendors' versions of LANMAN support
DOS workstations.


Rob Kiesler
Compaq Computer

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