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From: pasquale@sgl (Pasquale Leone)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS deficiencies
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Date: 19 Mar 91 19:38:49 GMT
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In article <29#=N#}@rpi.edu> barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd) writes:
>Debating what a "network" is supposed to be seems besides the point. By all
>accounts Sun's PC-NFS seems to be deficienct in its compatibility with a
>Win 3.0 PC environment. A product released as PC compatible and Win 3.0
>compatible "should" IMHO be recognized by that environment (i.e. Win 3.0
>network configuration should be NFS, NOT "No Network"). 
> 
>Beyond simple installation, I would expect a PC Win 3.0 network product be
>able to mount virtual drives from within that environment (not exit to DOS
>reset configuration files then reboot the system).

Sun's PC_NFS is NOT the only NFS available for pc's. We use Beam&Whitesides
BW-NFS on our pc's (7 of them) with Desqview and or Win3.0.
Mounting virtual drives from within dos windows (Desq or Win) is not a problem.
In fact you can mount or unmount a virtual drive or printer from within
a dos window. Also their rlogin works from dos windows (Desq or Win), even
several rlogins at the same time (one per window).

I also must disagree with your attitude that existing software is bad
because windows will not work with it properly. Desqview works far better
with existing software packages than Windows3.0 does. Microsoft seems
to want to monopolize the pc software business by changing the operating
system with the intention of breaking other companies software.

pasquale@sgl.ists.ca