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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NFS for the Mac exists!!!!!!
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Date: 15 Dec 89 06:36:02 GMT
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sharp@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Maurice Sharp) writes:
>In article <261@bii.UUCP> jsl@bii.UUCP (jsl) writes:
>>
>>I know everyone out there in netland is looking for an NFS
>>implementation for the Macintosh family of computers.  Well you'll
>>be glad to here about what I recieved in the mail the other day.
>[etc. singing praises of NFS]
>
>Why oh why would you want to muck up your macs with NFS.  It does
>bad enough things on our Suns.  From what I have been told NFS for
>the mac is slow and has lots of bugs.  If you want to share files
>and printers you are MUCH better of using ushare from IPT.

I can think of a lot of reasons why you'd want NFS on a Mac, particuliarly if
you are going to hook up your Mac(s) up to a Sun especially.  Maybe you're
running a pre-4.0 version of SunOS, I know that causes a lot of problems with
NFS inspite of the fact the protocol is standard.  Why would somebody want to
run a pre-4.0 version of SunOS?  Simple, there's a bit of software out there
that won't run on SunOS 4.0.  Don't ask me why some vendors don't upgrade
their software or take it at a snail's pace to do the upgrade, but they do.

Not only do I want NFS capability on the Mac, I'm about ready to yell at SCO
for not making it available for Xenix especially after seeing that the
Xenix-Net developer's kit has TCP/IP and the BSD socket library.  Now 
something's not quite right here, the developer's kit has everything you need 
to develop NFS, but SCO hasn't done it yet and the official rumor I've heard
is that they never plan to for Xenix.
 
     // JCA

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