[comp.newprod] BWNFS 1.00 for PCs

BEAME@McMaster.CA (08/22/89)

August 15, Ancaster, Ont.

Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd. has been shipping BWNFS version 1.00 since
June of this year. BWNFS is a PC based NFS client for IBM PC's and compatibles
running DOS 3.x.

BWNFS supports up to twenty-four redirected disks and eight redirected
printers. Each disk can be linked with a different userid and supports up to
sixteen groups per userid. Execute only files are supported. Consistent, unique
filename mapping is performed for invalid DOS filenames. Transfers sizes can
be set on a per drive basis for transfers up to 8 KBytes. With 4 KB transfer
size, DOS read rates of over 500 KiloBytes per second have been obtained.
A printer setup string of up to 512 bytes can be set on any or all of the
redirected printers. The string is prepended to any printer output.

Utilities included are:

                chgrp - Change group ownership of file
                chmod - Change protection of file
                ls    - Full ls style listings
                net group - Change default group
                cat   - List files (DOS or UNIX)
                rsh   - Remote Shell/Login with full authentication
                quota - Display remote quotas
                df    - Display disk usage
                exports - List exported filesystems
                net prot - Change default protection
                u2d, d2d - Format conversion
                default - change default parameters for above commands

The memory resident TCP/UDP/ICMP/IP, ethernet driver and redirector use
less than 50K of memory.

BWNFS is available with an optional telnet package. Included in the package
is an eight session VT102 emulator with tftp or xmodem/kermit file transfer,
ftp, finger, whois and talk.

As of September 1st Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd. will be shipping
version 1.10 of BWNFS. Version 1.10 enhancements include:

        o  DOS 3.1 locking and sharing

        o  BWNFS/EXCELAN - an NFS client which runs over Excelan's
                           LAN Workplace for DOS. Using Excelan's NetWare
                           driver allows for concurrent access to Novell
                           NetWare disks as well as NFS disks. Uses less
                           than 40 KB of memory.

        o  Absolute and relative directory symbolic link traversing:
                - Symbolic links which are valid DOS directory names
                  are followed in the directory tree even if the link
                  points to another filesystem. BWNFS will auto-mount
                  the filesystem and make it accessible under the
                  drive:\directory_name of the symbolic link.

        o  Improved transfer rates.


BWNFS and BWNFS/EXCELAN are available for the single copy price of $195 US each
The Telnet package is available for $195 US.
BWNFS with the Telnet package is available for $295 US for both.

Right to copy discounts start at 20 copies with a discount of 30%.

Note: prices are subject to change.

For more information, contact:

Lisa Beame
Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd.
259 Fiddler's Green Rd.
Ancaster, Ontario
Canada, L9G 1W9
(416) 648-6556

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