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From: Sam Brain
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1989 19:52

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We use Sun's PC-NFS on several dozen IBM XTs, conncted via ethernet to
a VAX/750 running 4.3BSD. We run NFS on the VAX which is the server
side of things, and PC-NFS on the PCs as the client side. You can
"mount" a VAX disk partition as disk D:,E:,etc and see the VAX files as
DOS files, and vice versa. You also get print service thro the unix
spooling system, and you can also buy a PC mail application which talks
POP to your VAX (the mail package includes the source code for the Unix
POP server).  It all works very nicely for us.

If you have a unix source licence, you should have access to the NFS
code. I don't know if Sun sells the PC-NFS source code, (for a
reasonable price ;-), but they do sell a PC-NFS Programmers Toolkit, which
consists of a set of C libraries (for Microsoft C, I think) allowing
you to do IPC between VAX and PCs, using either RPC or BSD-style sockets,
both stream- and datagram-. That might be enough for your needs.

Sam Brain
S044 Radiology
Stanford Medical Center
Stanford, CA 94305.

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