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From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS Tasks under Unix: Let's hear about it!
Summary: more questions
Keywords: DOS multitasking unix
Message-ID: <5622@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 03:17:35 GMT
References: <5090@ecsvax.UUCP> <1791@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
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Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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>First a  little background -- VP/ix provides  a virtual IBM PC
>with floppy drives, a C: and D: hard drive, and the Unix file
>system as a NETBIOS network shared drive.  You have a video
>adaptor -- either whatever is on your console if you run on the console,
>or a Monochrome adaptor card if you run it from a serial port.
>Virtual DOS devices can be mapped to unix files/devices via a 
>config file.

Can anyone say how much of a Netbios interface is presented by VP/ix?
In limited testing I have found that 2 Dos versions of kermit 2.30
(which can talk across a real netbios network) cannot connect to
each other under VP/ix.  More surprising, Microsoft word and chart,
which know how to release print jobs on a real network, do not do so under
VP/ix.  You have to pop up the control menu and manually force the
print jobs to be passed to the unix spooler.  Perhaps I missed something
in the setup?

  Les Mikesell