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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Ethernet communications for MS Windows
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Date: 7 Jun 91 04:14:03 GMT
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iroberts@pichem.adelaide.edu.au (Ian Roberts) writes:
>I currently am using network software not fully supported by Windows 3.0 (PC-NFS
>3.0.1). If I upgrade to PC-NFS 3.5 (claimed to be fully supported) and obtain a

Although Sun says PC-NFS 3.5 fully supports Windows 3.0, this is only
partially true.

>suitable communications package (see above) will I be able to log in to a data
>base on a remote host and collect selected data to a local file easily (perhaps
>to another window)?

Based on pictures I have seen of Sun's Advanced Telnet (I haven't used
PC-NFS for years, but I knew it pretty well. I just helped a member of
my group get his installation running after our central computing people
completely botched the install) it is not a Windows application.
However, you can still "cut" and "paste" from a DOS shell in Win3.

There are other people with better Windows support like Beame and Whiteside
and another company in Cupertino, CA whose name I forget at the moment.

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