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From: wittmann@erb1.engr.wisc.edu (art wittmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Novell/Unix compatibility
Message-ID: <295@erb1.engr.wisc.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 91 17:32:03 GMT
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In article <5937@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:

Here are some purely non-authoritative answers to your questions:
>
>1.  When is Novell going to have its TCP/IP gateway software ready?
>    Will it be able to handle NFS filesystem mounting, electronic
>    mail, printer queue service, and all the other doo-dads I'm used
>    to with TCP/IP?

TCP/IP stuff will probably be ready around the end first quarter from everything
that heard.  This is not the NFS implementation, my guess is that NFS will lag
into the summer.  The intitial offering probably won't have mail since a separate
group in novell does mail development.  
>
>2.  Is there a source code control system which runs under both DOS
>    and Unix and which knows about both Unix and DOS/Novell file locking?
>    (I'm looking at RCS from Free Software Foundation.  Is anyone out
>    there using it on a Netware system?)

Don't know of one.
>
>3.  Does Netware run under the VP/ix DOS emulator package from SCO?
>    With what LAN cards?

Yuck.  Sounds like a REALLY bad idea, and I don't think you'd stand any chance
of getting it to work.  Neither netware 386 nor netware 286 will run in real
mode, they would also want to deal directly with the hardware, including 
formatting the drives as netware drives, not Unix.  If you were talking about
the client side of netware, I don't think that will work either.  You'd
need some sort of device driver for IPX to use, none exists that I know of.

>
>4.  Is there a Netware implementation on any other host besides DOS,
>    specifically any flavor of Unix?
>
There are a number of ports of portable netware.  NCR, Prime and HP come to
mind.  I believe I've heard mention of one for SCO, but don't recall to 
actual vendor.


>As you can guess, Netware is new to me.  I'd never heard of it until
>recently, and I've gotten the impression that Novell has really taken over
>the PC LAN market only within the last few years.
>
>-rich

Your probably sitting about the same position as a bunch of us out here. 
We're waiting to see exactly what novell is going to come out with for Unix
and TCP/IP.  I've been in a few "executive briefings", and that sort of thing
with Novell.  I think I can safely say that they SEEM dedicated to bringing
services to the Unix workstation environment.  All of this will come only
on netware 386.  If you're running netware 286, you won't get much in the
way of Unix functionality from Novell.  Netware 386 is their "platform of the
'90s".  If your thinking of porting unix apps to netware, I think you'll find
it a much different environment to which to program.  

Art

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