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From: rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Replacing Novell Netware with NFS
Message-ID: <7447@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 1 May 91 02:33:43 GMT
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Organization: Kronos Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane) writes:
>.. PC-NFS costing $205.00 per PC.  Any public
>domain implementations would be great - the product only has to be
>able to make a Unix directory appear as a virtual dos drive (E: or
>whatever) and do dos print services through the Unix box.  

(Sorry for posting rather than e-mailing, as requested...)  There isn't
any public-domain client implementation yet, but my guess is it would take
less than 3 person-months of work to create one using SOSS as a base.  If
you're working for a company with a large number of DOS machines, you
might be able to get the time budgeted to do this work, and the glory
which comes from having a *lot* of other companies/individuals using it.

Anyone out there who would like to take on this project?  It basically
involves creating a TSR which intercepts software interrupts, redirecting
a drive letter's I/O to the already-implemented SOSS network code.

-rich