chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) (12/08/85)
In article <2467@sdcrdcf.UUCP> darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer) writes: >PUP stands for PARC Universal Packet. I always thought it was Packet Universal Protocol; but who cares anyway? >The 4.3 rumors I've heard say 4.3bsd will have XNS including sending >files to a Xerox print server, and sending and retrieving files from >a Xerox file server (but not emulation of an XNS file server, so >getting a file from VAX to workstation would have to go via a Xerox >server). Let me solidify these rumors. Cornell does indeed have applications that can: print Interpress masters on Xerox XNSish printers; `gaptelnet' to a Xerox server or another 4.3 machine running Courier services; run a TTY communications server that (using a kludge on the Xerox side) Stars can use as virtual VT100s; and `xnsftp' files to and from a Xerox server. These are to be distributed with 4.3BSD as part of the `user contributed software' (i.e., the stuff in /usr/new). The reason a Vax cannot yet act as a file server (or run Clearinghouse service, or Mail service, etc.) is that these protocols are (1) complicated and (2) hard to get out of Xerox---it is, to use that old cliche, like pulling teeth. `Authentication service? Sure, here is how to use it. What, you want to *write* it? Let me go see if we are allowed to divulge that information...' :-) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@mimsy.umd.edu