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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: NFS Support in NetWare
Message-ID: <6995@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 91 01:39:59 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.175058.16007@novell.com> <`*L&Q*-@warwick.ac.uk> <tb.669407545@elwood>
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In article <tb.669407545@elwood> tb@Materna.DE (Torsten Beyer) writes:
>C'mon Rob, let's be fair. Skip pipes and devices. These won't work with NFS
>either (although they do with RFS (to my knowledge at least, any RFS gurus
>outthere ?)).

If this were true, then diskless workstations wouldn't work very well,
would they?  FIFOs and special devices work under NFS but they're
interpreted locally on the client--they do not access resources on
the server.

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Steve Dyer
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