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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: high-speed file transfer
Message-ID: <85850@sun.uucp>
Date: 18 Jan 89 18:19:42 GMT
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In article <36@snll-arpagw.UUCP> (Sam Paolucci) writes:
>I think that Ameristar took the only sensible choice considering that the
>Amiga ignores case sensitivity presently.

You are correct and it is a wart on the NFS protocol rather than the 
Ameristar implementation of it. One of the main uses the Amiga 2000 
here at Sun gets is to look at Unix <--> NonUnix interactions on 
the NFS and other protocols. That's why there is a Version 3 of NFS
in the works to handle such things as different usages of case. 
Consider the problem our poor cousin has with filenames that are
restricted to 11 characters (one of them being a '.'). This is 
the most challenging area of the new protocol work. But enough of
all that. Yes, Ameristart makes the best NFS product for the Amiga
(and the worst too I suppose since it seems to be the only one) and 
if you want to share files between an Amiga and a larger machine it
is the only way to fly.


--Chuck McManis
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