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From: arsen@erg.sri.com (Tom Arseneault)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: ftp software NFS and others.
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.225259.7707@erg.sri.com>
Date: 15 Jan 91 22:52:59 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.195655.20321@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
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In article <1991Jan9.195655.20321@vlsi.polymtl.ca> scoob@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Christian Marcotte) writes:
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>	Hi.  We're looking around to buy a pc-nfs system.
>	
>	I've heard good things about ftp software in the past
>	(good transfer rate etc...) but lately a guy from another
>	lab was complaining about it.  He could not install and run
>	wordperfect and pc-matlab.
>
>	Has anyone had good/bad experience with ftp software pc nfs?
>
>	
>	There is also PC-NFS from Sun but it's expensive and supposedly
>	takes a lot of ram.  
				
		I use PC-NFS almost exclusively. First off it uses 
		less ram than the FTP software for the same function
		(~90K vs 115k for PC-TCP+NetDrive). However in some
		respects PC-NFS is simple to the point of being stupid
		a case in point is the mailer the editor though simple
		is very restrictive and it has a 32K buffer limit. 
		PC-TCP is more of a programers tool it has much better
		utilities and programs but is much harder to set up 
		and maintain. PC-NFS has a much cleaner user interface.
		The FTP software is much more flexible than PC-NFS 
		but PC-NFS is better for beginers.
		
>
>	I've heard mentions of another company but cannot remember the name.
		I belive the name of the company is Woolagong (my 
		spelling may be off but it sounds like that.)
>
>	Please forward me pertinent experience with any (or all) of
>	those packages.  (Wordperfect is a MUST Windows-3 would be nice).
		I have not run Wordperfect but the following is an 
		excerpt from the PC-NFS manual (the FTP manual did
		not have any thing like this):
		"WordPerfect (Ver.4.1 and 5.0)
		WordPerfect from SSI software may not work properly
		if you start the program from a directory other than
		the one in which it was installed. If you encouner an
		error trying to load WordPerfect, type in the full 
		path to the WP.EXE file when WordPerfect prompts you.
		WordPerfect will then patch itself and work correctly.
			When printing, WordPerfect may be used with 
		the Diable emulation mode. However if you select 
		"Diablo 630 ECS" from the printer menu, problems may
		arise since the program occasionally generates
		unsupported command sequences. Selecting "Diablo 620"
		works better.
			Most likely you will want to use PostScript
		mode (both WordPerfect and PC-NFS) if your server has 
		a PostScript printer."
		
		I have had no problems running either "NFS" with 
		Window 3.0 but some TCP based programs misbehave 
		badly (more a problem with PC-NFS than PC-TCP).
>
>	Thanks
>		Scoob.
>
>

Thomas J. Arseneault
arsen@erg.sri.com