From: "Tim Bird" <tbird AT caldera DOT com>
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Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 10:01:05 -0600
In-Reply-To: "Jonathan E. Brickman" <brickman@cjnetworks.com>
        "Suggestion: change bundled OpenDOS networking" (May  8,  9:04pm)
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Subject: Re: Suggestion: change bundled OpenDOS networking
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Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
> Dump Personal NetWare, and include some
> port of NFS and LPD.  I think enough
> source code is out there to make it
> reasonably easy to accomplish.  And I
> think the result would be much better:
> there are far more machines out there that
> are ready to do NFS and LPD than will do
> Personal NetWare.  This also would dramatically
> increase the ease of interoperability between
> OpenDOS and Caldera desktops.  I'd dearly
> love to run OpenDOS and OpenDOS/Win3.11
> and OpenDOS/Java clients with Caldera
> servers with no IPX involved at all.

I agree totally with your assessment that NFS support would be great
(especially for connectivity to Linux).  Even though I have a Personal
NetWare setup at home, I'd also like to get file server connectivity to my
Caldera boxes.  I tried to get NFS working on DOS, but couldn't find
anything that was both 1) free, and 2) I could get running.

Currently, I'm now waiting for Caldera's NetWare server
(which, I know it's unfair, I could get for free since I work here. :)

However, I have to disagree about dumping Personal NetWare.  It is quite
functional for many uses (particularly small networks at schools or
small businesses).  I don't know why including something else necessarily
has to push it out as an option.

Tim Bird