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From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC-NFS(R) with 3270PC
Message-ID: <1538@east.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 10 Feb 90 02:57:43 GMT
References: <3361@plains.UUCP> <3375@plains.UUCP>
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Reply-To: geoff@East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Organization: Sun Microsystems PC-NFS Engineering
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Quoth lodin@plains.UUCP (Joe Schmo) (in <3375@plains.UUCP>):
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#In article <3361@plains.UUCP> lodin@plains.UUCP (Joe Schmo) writes:
#>
#>Is there any reason why PC-NFS wouldn't work with
#>a 3270PC?  I am going to use it as a gateway
#
#I forgot to mention that I have PC-NFS version 3.0 and
#the the 3270PC needs DOS 2.1x to operate.  In the manual
#for PC-NFS, it said it needed DOS 3.x or better.  Why?
#Do I have any work-around solutions?

PC-NFS has been successfully installed on DOS 2.x systems (most
recently, the ROM-resident DOS 2.x on a laptop with a Xircom
Pocket Ethernet Adapter). PC-NFS itself seems quite happy
in this mode; however we cannot warrant/support this configuration
since any application will see a weird hybrid DOS - a DOS 2.x with
functioning versions of certain DOS 3.x (and 4.x) system calls.

In summary - we don't SQA this config., we don't support it, it
will probably work, and we'd welcome feedback on your experiences.
Reasonable?

By the way, you should upgrade to 3.0.1 at some point.

Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM)
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