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From: jeremy@ka.novell.com (Jeremy Liang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: RE: NFS support in NetWare
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.173954.22995@novell.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 06:23:37 GMT
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cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) writes:
|>We've seen the Novell NFS server supports long filenames (256 characters /
|>component ?) with unlimited character sets (all 8 bits ?), but does it also
|>support hard and soft links, character and block devices, named pipes, Unix
|>domain sockets, and such ?
|

Let me set the record straight. Yes, NetWare NFS does support hard/symbolic
links, character and block devices, name pipes, and UNIX domain sockets.