🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi --

I am really trying hard to find a use for OS/2 :-)

But I keep coming up with missing pieces to every puzzle I try to solve.

Can anyone help me find the missing pieces?

OS/2 has a great HPFS that would make it well suited for a usenet news
server (for example). :-)

For about $300/node I can set up TCP/IP and NFS to share files between
OS/2 and MS-DOS/Windows platforms :-(

If I leave OS/2 out of the picture, I can use Novell NetWare Lite to get
the same functionality as TCP/IP and NFS in a small local area net, for
only about $70/node. :-)

But then I am stuck with a FAT file system. :-(

What I really want is Novell NetWare Lite for OS/2 or else a much cheaper
source for TCP/IP and NFS for DOS/Windows [I want DOS nodes to be able to
"publish" network volumes as well as "mount" them.]

Does anyone have any idea of a way that I can get this functionality at a
reasonable cost?

I don't consider Novell Regular 2.xx or 3.xx to be reasonable cost --
what I want is a simple inexpensive peer-to-peer network that 8086
and 80286 processor nodes can participate in.

Or have the vendors involved (Novell, IBM, etc.) conspired to suppress
the functionality that I want in order to enhance sales of more expensive
solutions [that may be worth it if I needed their full functionality,
which I don't]? :-(

Someone on the net suggested that I get a patch for OS/2 that would run
NWLITE in a DOS box, but I can't find the file "netwlsrv.zoo" on the
FTP server that I was told to look on [hobbes] -- I think that they just 
reorganized their directory structure. Anyone know where to get this 
patch?


orville

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