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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.sys.novell,comp.windows.ms
Subject: report on Sun PC-NFS 3.5
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.030354.19881@amd.com>
Date: 19 Mar 91 03:03:54 GMT
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I just tried the real Sun PC-NFS 3.5 (non-beta, I am told), since some
people couldn't believe that my comments had any validity if I had only
read press releases and magazine articles.

As a side note, it is really amazing how far some people will
go to defend a product like Sun's PC-NFS, instead of joining
with me to ask Sun to fix it. Why would you prefer to attack
someone who's telling you about ways to make your life easier?

It's not like I don't know HOW to use telnet or rsh to check the line
printer status. I can do it, but I know that with Novell, I don't have
to.

Anyway, I installed the upgrade and tried it on two different
machines. Sun PC-NFS behaves exactly as I expected from their
press releases.

If you are a person who really wanted a Sun and got stuck with a PC,
you might like Sun PC-NFS. If you are using a PC because you want to,
you'll probably find Sun PC-NFS harder to use than Novell.

--
The Macintosh makes it easy to do sloppy work.