Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Path: utzoo!censor!geac!maccs!beame
From: beame@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Beame)
Subject: Re: ftp software NFS and others.
Message-ID: <27992769.4826@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
References: <1991Jan9.195655.20321@vlsi.polymtl.ca> <1991Jan15.225259.7707@erg.sri.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 91 05:15:21 GMT

In article <1991Jan15.225259.7707@erg.sri.com> arsen@erg.sri.com (Tom Arseneault) writes:
>In article <1991Jan9.195655.20321@vlsi.polymtl.ca> scoob@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Christian Marcotte) writes:
>>
>>
>>	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). 
>		
>>
>>	I've heard mentions of another company but cannot remember the name.

	PC based NFS is also available from Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd.
(416) 648-6556. It uses 55K of memory of DOS memory and is fairly fast. 
BWNFS is not very expensive.


	- Carl Beame
	President
	Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd.
	Beame@McMaster.CA