Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!warwick!cudcv From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: NFS Support in NetWare Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 17:58:11 GMT References: <1991Feb28.175058.16007@novell.com> <`*L&Q*-@warwick.ac.uk> Sender: news@warwick.ac.uk (Network news) Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: shark In article tb@Materna.DE (Torsten Beyer) writes: >Skip pipes and devices. These won't work with NFS either (although they do >with RFS ...). Hmm, pipes seem to work fine for me: % ls -lg pipe prw-r--r-- 1 cudcv staff 0 Mar 21 14:20 pipe % df . Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on orchid:/home/orchid 254785 227401 1905 99% /home/orchid % echo gronk > pipe & [1] 1874 % cat < pipe [1] Done echo gronk > pipe gronk % Emacsclient likes to create Unix domain sockets in your home directory, so pipes and sockets at least are a necessity if you have your home directory on such a server. Devices work fine too, although Joe Average User can't create them, so they're much less important. They just work differently to RFS, accessing local instead of remote devices. Which is the `right' way of working is not a discussion for this group. Cheers, Rob -- UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!warwick!cudcv PHONE: +44 203 523037 JANET: cudcv@uk.ac.warwick INET: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk Rob McMahon, Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL, England