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From: mtidgewell@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: AT&T DOS with Novell
Message-ID: <1991May10.103309.42650@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 10 May 91 15:33:08 GMT
References: <1991May8.135139.3350@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Wesleyan University
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In article <1991May8.135139.3350@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, tracy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Phil Tracy) writes:
> I would like to connect an ancient (I'm talking vacuum tubes) AT&T PC-class
> machine to a Novell 2.15C network.  IPX.COM loads fine.  When I try to 
> load NET3.COM, I un-failingly get a "memory allocation error".
> 
> The PC seems fine otherwise, and although it is in daily use, no one has
> reported any memory errors.  It is running AT&T's version of MS-DOS 3.2.
> 
> Does anyone know of any incompatibilities between AT&T DOS 3.2 and Novell??
> 
> Thanks for you help.
> 
> 	-Phil Tracy	tracy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
> -- 
> Phillip Tracy			Northwestern Univ.	(312) 503-1536
> tracy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu	Academic Computing	Chicago, IL 60611

I'm sure some has aswered this already, but I'll answer too.  AT&T DOS 3 is not
really DOS3.  It uses a DOS 2 file system.  The only answer we have is to run
AT&T DOS 2 or MS-DOS of the version of any flavor.  You lose the real time
clock, but Netware Shell will load date and time.  My main problem is finding a
way to backup AT&T 6300 to our net, the zircom won't work with it, I have to
boot with DOS 2, no xcopy.  I've been using lap link lately.  These things seem
to be the most uncompatable compatables sinse Columbia went out of business.
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