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From: mcc@ETN-WLV.EATON.COM (Merton Campbell Crockett)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  Remote Virtual Disk
Message-ID: <8801060600.AA14438@etn-wlv.EATON.COM>
Date: 6 Jan 88 06:00:07 GMT
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Brad:

Softronics offers a product called Softerm PC which includes a "seamless disk"
or "remote virtual disk" capability.  In release 2.00.09 of the software, I
was able to access the disk on our DDN gateway VAX running bsd 4.3.  They
were some problems with the implementation:

    1.  The procedure that you create for the "seamless disk" had to log
	you in to the correct account on the host system.  (MS-DOS wanted
	to interpret the "/" in the UNIX path name as a MS-DOS switch.)
    2.  The files name had to follow MS-DOS naming conventions and file
	name length restrictions.
    3.  The file name had to be all upper case characters unless you used
	the UNIX upper/lower case translation capability by logging in
	using upper case characters in which case you could access files
	with lower case names.

I currently use release 2.10.02 but haven't gotten around to retesting to
see if they corrected the above problems.

Merton Campbell Crockett