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From: alan@curly.Viewlogic.COM (Alan Medsker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: NFS Support in NetWare
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.121644@curly.Viewlogic.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 91 17:16:44 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.)
|> 

Have you actually seen the NetWare/NFS product, or any of its documentation?  I think
you'll probably find that the file naming limitations are not there if you don't want
them to be (although you may want to stick with them for interoperability purposes).
After all, NetWare allows wierdo Mac file names...

Remember, you are *NOT* dealing with DOS here.  It's NetWare, which has all sorts of
things in its file system that DOS doesn't have (last access date, long file names,
file ownership and protection).  In fact, it's probably better thought of as a superset
of Unix or DOS file systems.

C'mon, let's not trash them (Novell) before we see how it all works.  From what I've
seen, this product will be well worth it in my environment (125 PCs, four NetWare
servers, 100 Unix workstations, a few Macs) to greatly enhance interoperability,
if nothing else.

Alan

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