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Summary: a different way
Message-ID: <1991Oct9.095123.4575@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 9 Oct 91 14:50:55 GMT

One method of connecting to a DOS session that can mount a Novell server 
(or probably almost any other type of service) is to use the Waterloo
telnet daemon for MS-DOS.  This requires a dedicated PC, but allows
anything that can emulate a VT100 or VT220 to connect and use applications
that don't require anything more than character mode.  The mapping of the
MS-DOS screen to the VT100/VT220 is not always easy to understand and the
cursor position can be difficult to locate but when I'm trying to fix
a Novell problem at 3 A.M. from my home I'll live with the problems,
rather than driving in to use a MS-DOS Novell client.

Things like FILER, SYSCON, PC-Write, SilverPlatter (CD-ROM access) work
acceptably if the user is sophisticated (me :-) ) and is willing to 
work around problems as they appear (especially with SilverPlatter).
It's a rather nice joke, however, to see the reaction of a dedicated
Sun user when you start to edit a file in an X window on a Sun using
PC-Write 2.71.

The Waterloo TCP/IP stuff is available from sunee.uwaterloo.ca via
anonymous ftp.  I don't know what the restrictions are on commerical
use of their software.  Contact erick@development.watstar.uwaterloo.edu
for more info.
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