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From: stan@cs.uiuc.edu (Seemong Tan)
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Subject: [nfs] Re: SOSS
Keywords: SOSS NFS
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Date: 6 May 91 13:43:57 GMT
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Archive-name: internet/nfs/soss/1991-05-01
Archive-directory: spdcc.com:/pub/sos/ [140.186.80.3]
Original-posting-by: stan@cs.uiuc.edu (Seemong Tan)
Original-subject: Re: SOSS
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)

In article <n41g=ta@rpi.edu>, barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd) writes:
|> I have seen SOSS mentioned with respect to NFS. What does SOSS stand for
|> (save our sorry ship?)? What does it do, if anything? Why is it related
|> to NFS?

First, there was SOS, Stan's Own Server, which I wrote while at Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory.  It is a NFS server for the IBM PC, so you can
export the DOS box's drives as NFS filesystems.  Geoff Arnold at Sun
gave me lots of help on it.

Now, Rich Braun of Kronos has written SOSS, Son of Stan's Server,
which greatly improves reliability and speed over the original SOS.
It also includes support for Novell products.  Rich Braun is really
quite a studly programmer for having taken SOS and made it into SOSS!

|> If it is software or a standard of some sort, is there and FTP site with
|> it or descriptions thereof (e.g. RFC xxxx) available?

It's available via anonymous ftp from spdcc.com.  And some other sites,
but I can't recall where.

|> | Barry B. Floyd                   \\\       barry_floyd@mts.rpi.edu |
|> | Manager Information Systems - HR    \\\          usere9w9@rpitsmts |
|> +-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute--------------------troy, ny 12180-+

stan

-- comp.archives file verification
spdcc.com
total 1127
-rw-r--r--  1 267          8504 May  2 13:36 DISTSITE
drwxr-xr-x  2 267           512 Apr 24 08:45 old
-rw-r--r--  1 267          2277 Apr 24 08:44 README
-rw-r--r--  1 267          8155 Apr 23 16:43 DISTSITE.~1~
-rw-r--r--  1 267        201388 Apr 16 14:18 sossexe.zoo
-rw-r--r--  1 267        441445 Apr 16 14:18 soss.zoo
-rw-r--r--  1 267        226966 Mar 31 10:54 myrcs.zoo
-rw-r--r--  1 267          1127 Mar 28 09:31 README.RCS
-rw-r--r--  1 267        177806 Feb  7 12:46 ipkit.zoo
-rw-r--r--  1 267         40192 Feb  5 21:45 zoo.exe
found soss ok
spdcc.com:/pub/sos/