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Subject: Re: NFS Connectathon
Message-ID: <803@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 08:43:56 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  6 08:43:56 1987
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Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Summary: NFS can be done just from published spec
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In article <32909@sun.uucp>, guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
> 
> I believe Apollo's NFS implementation was done from the protocol spec, not from
> the code.  If you want the code, we will sell you the code for an

	I co-authored a client only implementation of NFS for the Amiga
	personal computer - the port was done entirely from the published
	RPC & NFS specs.  Note that one used to be able to call the NFS
	group and (for a nominal charge: ~$60) get a tape & stack of
	porting documents for NFS/RPC/XDR.
	

> 	Guy Harris
> 	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
> 	guy@sun.com

					Rick Spanbauer
					SUNY/Stony Brook (& Ameristar)