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From: rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: SOSS
Keywords: SOSS NFS
Message-ID: <7461@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 2 May 91 18:54:51 GMT
Organization: Kronos Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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stan@cs.uiuc.edu (Seemong Tan) writes:
>It's available via anonymous ftp from spdcc.com.  And some other sites,
>but I can't recall where.

I now have the following distribution sites.  I'm still curious as to how
one gets it to people without direct ftp access; I believe Clarkson runs
a mail archive server, but I've also gotten requests for it from Bitnet
sites.  If someone with lots of Internet software distribution experience
can help me make this more widely available (and be able to respond to
inquiries from far corners of the net), I'd like to correspond.  Here's
the anonymous-ftp list:

        System                         Directory	Contact
        ------------                   ---------        -------
        spdcc.com			pub/sos		rbraun    (MA)
        sun.soe.clarkson.edu		pub/ka9q	nelson    (NY)
        iuvax.cs.indiana.edu!sir-alan	/u/pubdir/SOS	mikes     (IN)
	cs.ep.utexas.edu		pub/sos		pwesley   (TX)
	garbo.uwasa.fi			pc/comm		hv	  (Finland)
	kirk.bu.oz.au			pub/PC/soss	bambi     (Australia)
	nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at		pub/src/PCtcp/soss  mah   (Austria)

One person has agreed to make it available via mail-order diskette for
about US$4.  And I do run a walk-up service for companies like Interleaf.
:-)

With regard to my ~3-month estimate of creating a client-NFS version, that
only applies to someone who has already written a TSR to intercept DOS
file I/O operations, and knows basically how to hook something like SOSS
into something already familiar.  It would probably be much harder for
the typical summer-grad, though you never know; summer grads are often very
fast learners.  And recalling my own college days, they can be highly
motivated by the prospect of seeing their software in use daily by
thousands of grateful people.

-rich