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Re: Vax file servers

#444
From: Keith Sklower
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1988 23:04
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In article <12371361215.99.SCHMIDT@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU>
SCHMIDT@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU  writes (among other things):
>    Is there satasfactory software to run under Unix?  The Unix guys point
>    out that XNS is available on the distribution tape from Berkeley or
>    Mt. Xinu, but does that include the server program(s)?  [...]
>
>My understanding is that it does not; client software only.

This is incorrect; You can get a version of filing server software that
works well enough to get sysouts from a vax using the tajo system tool
(or so, I've been told), via anonymous ftp from parcvax.xerox.com.
In the directory xns, retrieve the file Xerox-xns1.0.tar.Z.

I had to make one change to make it work on our systems:

*** morexnslib/CHlookup.c	Mon Nov 16 15:48:57 1987
--- morexnslib/CHlookup.c.org	Mon May 11 07:02:10 1987
***************
*** 197,203 ****
  	CourierConnection *conn;
  	Clearinghouse2_RetrieveAddressesResults raresult;
  
- 	conn.x_port = 0;
  	if ((conn = CourierOpen(&chaddr)) == NULL)
  		return(conn);
  	DURING
--- 197,202 ----
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From: sklower@sequoia.Berkeley.EDU.berkeley.edu (Keith Sklower)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: Re: Vax file servers
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Date: 4 Feb 88 23:04:51 GMT
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