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From: leo@unipalm.uucp (E.J. Leoni-Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PCNFS & QEMM5.11 & DOS5.0
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.171628.10464@unipalm.uucp>
Date: 22 Mar 91 17:16:28 GMT
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Organization: Unipalm Ltd., Cambridge, England
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behrends@tubife.ee.tu-berlin.de (Behrends) writes:


>On a 386SX, connected to a network via SUN PC-NFS ( Ni5210, Ethernet ), the
>nfsconf command does not work anymore. I suppose the problem is the "dos=high"
>option of DOS5.0, but I'm not sure about that. Nfsconf says 'packed file
>corrupt', but the network itself works correctly. 
>Loading DOS high, and doing the same with pcnfs.sys ( using Qemm511 )gives
>the amount of about 624k free DOS memory.
>I'm not very familiar with the (new ?) options of DOS5.0, but is there
>a way to get nfsconf to work again ?

>Thanks in advcance

I was told by a quarterdeck engineer, that this result was due to a bug
in some versions of EXEPACK, which manifested itself when programs 
loaded below the first 64k boundary: basically if you add some drivers back
into low memory it should work. If anybody has more info - lets hear it.