geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (02/12/91)
Quoth patrick@casbs.Stanford.EDU (Patrick Goebel) (in <1991Feb11.222828.1566@portia.Stanford.EDU>): #Q1: Does the term "PC-NFS" always mean "Sun PC-NFS" unless otherwise #specified? Well, usage tends to be somewhat lax, but since PC-NFS is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems it _should_ always refer to our product. The X/Open terminology for a generic DOS NFS implementation is (PC)NFS..... #Q2: What other commercial packages are available (besides Wollongong #and Sun) that integrate Telnet/FTP and NFS? Are they any good? FTP Software, Beame & Whiteside, Siemens Nixdorf (or is it Nixdorf Siemens?) I'll leave ratings up to more objective folks. #Q3: Is Sun's Telnet program really all that bad? Does it allow #customization of screen colors and/or key bindings? How is its scroll #rate? It's basic. Very basic. There are a number of third-party products which offer multi-emulation, multi-session, multi-feature terminal emulation, and so far we have elected not to compete with them. #Q4: Hats off to the makers of NCSA Telnet/FTP. Dare I ask, are there #plans to develop a companion NFS program to complement it? Or does #one already exist? Can't speak for the various NCSA developers, but I should point out that developing a bulletproof DOS redirector is a much more thorny task than building an application such as Telnet. Testing is [expletives deleted]. ------------------------------------------------- Note: I'm cross-posting comp.protocols.nfs, which is where most NFS issues get aired. Geoff -- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- No cute comments. War isn't cute. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
kjetilo@gollum.uio.no (Kjetil Otter Olsen) (02/13/91)
>Subject: Re: Telnet/FTP and PC-NFS >From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) >Organization: Sun Microsystems PC-NFS Engineering >Date: 12 Feb 91 15:51:45 GMT > >#Q3: Is Sun's Telnet program really all that bad? Does it allow >#customization of screen colors and/or key bindings? How is its scroll >#rate? > >It's basic. Very basic. There are a number of third-party products >which offer multi-emulation, multi-session, multi-feature terminal >emulation, and so far we have elected not to compete with them. > >-- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) -- > Pointers to those third-party "telnet" products (and the vendors) would be very interesting. ----- Kjetil Otter Olsen kjetilo@gollum.uio.no PC / Network Consultant Central Computing Service, University of Oslo, Norway -----