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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: NFS Support in NetWare
Message-ID: <6698@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 3 Mar 91 02:20:19 GMT
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In article <6638@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>It's not only not the cheapest, it's also quite deficient.  How many
>Unix people are going to like the filenaming limitations imposed by
>the DOS filesystem?  (eight characters, then a dot, then three more;
>characters like comma and plus are restricted; etc.)

Rich, are you pulling my leg, or does a Novell NFS file server
impose DOS filename restrictions on the NFS client??

Could someone at Novell comment on this?

In the same vein, is this also true for Macintosh naming conventions
when using a Netware server with Appletalk support as an Apple AFP
fileserver?

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