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From: dave@uwvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: NNTP vs. remote NFS mounts
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Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 09:34:02 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 09:34:02 1987
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There's one major point *against* just using NFS to access news.

There is no easy way to separate the binaries et al in /usr/lib/news.
So what?  Well, what if your server is a Gould and the workstations are all
uvaxen.  The Gould version of inews doesn't work too well on a vax :-)
I guess this is OK if you never want to *post* news.

This problem caused me to go the NNTP route.  We used to use NFS when the
server was a (really slow) vax.

Dave Cohrs                                             Proud member of NOTHING
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