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Back again from the blue. Here's version 1.5.

Disclaimer:
    The material in this FAQ is not based on preferrence for any
one product. All questions have been drawn from the archives of
comp.protocols.nfs starting from the very beginning. To all distributers/
software houses: If you feel that there is unfair representation of your
product in this list please mail me at:
    [e-mail]    or
    [e-mail]

or call:
    [phone] [US]

I have to admit that there is one bias. All addresses or phone numbers which
do not state which country they are in, are in the US. I've been pretty
oblivious about that.

NOTE: If you use this FAQ list and decide you like a product listed here
enough to purchase it, please mention where you got this information to the
product seller. Thank you.

Rawn Shah
RTD Systems & Networking, Inc.
Tucson, AZ

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*. This FAQ

*-1.   What topics does this FAQ cover?
*-2.   Where can I get this FAQ?
*-3.   Who helped write this FAQ?
*-4.   Who maintains this FAQ?
*-5.   Who maintains comp.protocols.nfs?
*-6.   Where are the archives for comp.protocols.nfs?
*-7.   Trademarks and Registered names.
*-8.   What do the -, + and * before the questions mean?
*-9.  *Whats up and coming in the next issue of the FAQ list?

The real FAQ:

A. Basics

A-1.   What is NFS?
A-2.   What is (PC)NFS?
A-3.   Where can I get (PC)NFS for my DOS system?
A-4.   Where can I get (PC)NFS for my MS-Windows system?
A-5.  +Where can I get (PC)NFS for my Macintosh system?
A-6.   What is PC-NFS as opposed to (PC)NFS?
A-7.   What is TCP/IP?
A-8.   What is telnet? What is ftp?
A-9.   What is a client? What is a server? Why do I need them?
A-10.  Where can I get (PC)NFS cheap/free/PD?
A-11.  What is SOS & SOSS? Where can I get it?
A-12. +Are there any free NFS clients available for DOS?
A-13.  What is SLIP?
A-14.  What is PPP?

B. Setup

B-1.  *What are the different types of drivers available?
B-2.  -What are "shim"s? What shims are available?
B-3.   What are packet drivers? Where do I get them?
B-4.   Can I use packet drivers with (PC)NFS?
B-5.  +Can I run (PC)NFS over SLIP?
B-6.   Can I run (PC)NFS at the same time as Netware?
B-7.   Can I run (PC)NFS at the same time as CUTCP or NCSA Telnet?
B-8.   Can (PC)NFS run with NDIS drivers?
B-9.  +Can I use (PC)NFS to mount a diskless PC from a remote server?
B-10.  Can (PC)NFS run over token ring?
B-11.  Can I run PC-NFS with my 3C509 Etherlink III card?
B-12.  Can I run PC-NFS slip at higher baud rates than 9600?
B-13.  Can I access an MSCDEX CD-ROM with PC-NFS?
B-14.  Can I run NDIS over Packet drivers?
B-15. *How does ODI compare to NDIS?

C. Server

C-1.   What is pcnfsd? What is pcnfsdv2?
C-2.  +Where can I get pcnfsd for my server system?
C-3.  -What is lockd?
C-4.   How can I test NFS performance?
C-5.   What is NHFSSTONES? Where can I get it?
C-6.  -What will help my server increase performance?
C-7.   How many nfsd's & biod's should I run on my server?
C-8.   What is asynchronous I/O? How can I modify my NFS server system to use
       asynchronous I/O?
C-9.   What is a good NFS server?
C-10.  What is LADDIS?
C-11. -What is XRemote & LBX?

D. Applications

D-1.  +Where can I get mail with (PC)NFS?
D-2.   Where can I get news with (PC)NFS?
D-3.   Where can I get an FTP server?
D-4.   Where can I get rwalld for (PC)NFS?   [May be removed, please read]
D-5.   Where can I get a INT-14 redirector for (PC)NFS?
D-6.   Where can I get YPPASSWD for PC-NFS?
D-7.   Where can I get IBM 3270 terminal for (PC)NFS?
D-8.   Where can I get an X-Windows server for (PC)NFS?
D-9.  -Where can I get a calender/scheduling program for (PC)NFS?
D-10. +Where can I get a database that works with (PC)NFS?
D-11.  Where can I get a WAIS client for (PC)NFS?
D-12. +Where can I get an archie for (PC)NFS?
D-13. +Where can I get a gopher client for (PC)NFS?
D-14. +Where can I get a WWW (World Wide Web) client for (PC)NFS?
D-15.  Where can I get X25 for (PC)NFS?
D-16.  Where can I get NEWGRP.EXE for PC-NFS?
D-17.  Where can I get AUTOCONF for PC-NFS?
D-18.  Where can I get a backup utiliy for (PC)NFS?
D-19.  Which (PC)NFS packages support DNS [named]?
D-20.  Where can I get a traceroute program?
D-21. +Where can I get an LPD program?

E. Problems & General Q&A

E-1.  -How can I load (PC)NFS into DOS high memory?
E-2.   Can I use DNS instead of NIS with PC-NFS?
E-3.   Why do some versions of (PC)NFS not follow symbolic links?
E-4.   PC-NFS v4.0 has trouble with Cntl-S, Cntl-Q.
E-5.   PC-NFS v4.0 has trouble with redrawing the window while in MS-Windows.
E-6.  +PC-NFS v4.0 doesn't allow me to access the local printer when I have
       network printers.
E-7.   I cannot delete any file that PC-NFS makes with a ~ (tilde) in it.
E-8.   PC-NFS says that it cannot open any more files even when the limit in
       autoexec.bat is set higher.
E-9.   Can (PC)NFS mount file systems which are bigger than 2 GB?
E-10.  What is NFS/TCP? Will it work with my NFS?
E-11. +What is PKTD.SYS? Where can I get it?
E-12.  How can I run Novell Netware (tm) 3.xx at the same time as (PC)NFS
       using NDIS?
E-13. -How many PC's can work with a single PC-NFS server?
E-14.  Is it possible to modify the read & write buffer sizes in (PC)NFS?
E-15.  How can I install Ethernet boards not supported by (PC)NFS?
E-16. *In postscript files I sometimes get a ^D before the header from my
       programs. How do I get rid of it?

F. Programming

F-1. +Is there a toolkit for (PC)NFS programming? Whats the latest version
      and where can I get it?
F-2.  What is the Windows Sockets API (winsock)? Where can I get it?
F-3.  What is the latest version of the NFS protocol?
F-4.  What happened to version 3 of the NFS protocol?
F-5.  What is the current RPC version? Where can I get it?
F-6.  Where can I get the RPC definition for PCNFSD?
F-7.  What are RFC's? What RFC's describe the NFS protocol? Where can I get
      these RFC's?
F-8.  How can I tell if a file is NFS mounted from a server?

G.  Product Features Comparisons

G-1. +Driver support comparison chart of different products.
G-2. +Protocol support comparison chart of different products.
G-3. +MS-Windows applications and support chart of different products.
G-4. +Utilities available with different products.
G-5. +Telnet features of different products.
G-6. +TCP/IP package compability with other network protocols.
G-7.  Features of different X-windows products.

H.  Information Sources

H-1.  Chest - Council for Higher Education Software Transfer [UK]
H-2.  X/Open
H-3. +Books
H-4.  Related Papers (published)
H-5. +Popular FTP sites
H-6.  Related FAQ's, USENET lists, mail lists.
H-7. *Glossary.

W.  Third-Party Email Software

W-1.   CliqAccessories        Quadratron Systems
W-2.   Higgins Group Prod sw    Enable Software
W-3.   Linkage            Concentric Technologies
W-4.   OpenMail            Hewlett-Packard
W-5.   PathWay Messenger    The Wollongong Group.
W-6.   PC-Eudora        Qualcomm Software.
W-7.   SelectMail        SunSelect

X.  X-Windows Software

X-1.   eXceed              Hummingbird Software Ltd.
X-2.   eXcursion          DEC
X-3.   eXodus              White Pines Software.
X-4.   Micro X-Lite           StarNet Communications Corporation.
X-5.   MultiView/X          JSB Corporation
X-6.   PC-Xware & PC-Xview      NCD, Inc.
X-7.   PC X-server & PC Link      XLink
X-8.   PC-Xsight         Locus Computing Corp.
X-9.   PC DECWindows Motif      DEC
X-10. -Reflection X        Walker, Richer & Quinn
X-11.  X Appeal            Xtreme s.a.s.
X-12.  Xoftware          AGE Logic, Inc.
X-13.  Xvision          VisionWare Soft, Inc
X-14.  X-windows for OS/2      IBM

Y.  Other Third Party & Related Software

 Server Products:
Y-1.   eNFS              INTERSTREAM
Y-2.   Multinet          TGV, Inc.
Y-3.  -DEC TCP/IP          Digitial Equipment Corp.
Y-4.  -NHFSSTONE          Legato
Y-5.  -PrestoServe          Legato
Y-6.   SOSS             Rich Braun
Y-7.   TCPWare for VMS      Process Software Corp.

 Other software:
Y-9.  -WinTrumpet/Trumpet    Peter Tatam.
Y-10. -WinVN
Y-11. -Cello
Y-12.  MacPPP


Z. TCP/IP & NFS Products

Z-1.   AIR for Windows      SPRY, Inc.
Z-2.   BW-NFS              Beame & Whiteside, Inc.
Z-3.   Chameleon NFS          NetManage
Z-4.   CU/TCP              Clarkson University/Rutgers University
Z-5.   Distinct TCP          Distinct Corp.
Z-6.  -LAN Manager TCP/IP      Microsoft Corp.
Z-7.   LAN Workplace NFS      Novell, Inc.
Z-8.   NCSA Telnet          Nat'l Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Z-9.   NFS/Share          Intercon, Inc.
Z-10.  NS & ARPA Services      Hewlett-Packard, Inc.
Z-11. +Pathway Access DOS/Win      The Wollongong Group.
Z-12.  PathWay Access OS/2    The Wollongong Group.
Z-13.  PC-NFS              SunSelect Inc.
Z-14.  PC/TCP              FTP Inc.
Z-15.  Reflection         Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc.
Z-16.  SuperTCP         Frontier Technology, Corp.
Z-17.  TCP/IP for DOS          IBM
Z-18. -TCP/IP for OS/2      IBM
Z-19.  TCP/Open          Lanera Corp.
Z-20.  TTCP              Turbosoft Pte. Ltd.
Z-21.  WATTCP            Erick Engelke
Z-22.  WinQVT              QPC Software, Inc.

Z-23. *Fusion             Pacific Softworks, Inc.
Z-24. *PathWay Access for Mac    The Wollongong Group.
Z-25. *ICE/TCP            James River Group
Z-26. *Piper/IP            IPswitch, Inc.


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*-1.  What topics does this FAQ cover?

This Frequently Asked Questions list covers questions on commonly available
NFS products and related products and topics running on PC systems and
Macintosh systems. The original section of topics has increased so much that
I've expanded them into separate sections as well. The topics now covered
are:

        A. Basics - general questions on what NFS, (PC)NFS, & TCP/IP are.
        B. Setup  - questions on setting up these products
        C. Server - questions on the PCNFSD server & server system
            administration
        D. Applications - commercial and public-domain applications which
                    will work with these systems.
        E. Problems & General Q&A - questions, problems and general info on
                    (PC)NFS maintainence.
        F. Programming - Programming toolkit and NFS & RPC related
                    programming questions.
    G. Product Features Comparions - This compares the features of
            the TCP/IP packages.
    H. Information Sources - This is a list of organizations or sources
                of information on NFS, XDR, Winsock, lists, etc.
    W. Third Party Email - This is a list of commercial and shareware
            email packages
    X. Xwindows Packages - This is a list of commercial Xwindows
            software
    Y. Third Party & Related Software - Third party products such as
            server software, news, etc.
        Z. TCP/IP & NFS products - Commercial and public domain/shareware
            TCP/IP & NFS products.

NOTE: Throughout this document all vendors are referred to by their entry
      number in section Z, eg.
            Z-X refers to entry X in section Z.

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*-2.  Where can I get this FAQ?

This FAQ is available on the USENET newsgroup, posted once in every two
weeks and also on the following FTP sites:
    seagull.rtd.com: /pub/tcpip/pcnfs.FAQ
    ftp.york.ac.uk: /pcnfs/FAQ/pcnfs.FAQ

As of August:
    bcm.tmc.edu: /nfs
    src.doc.ic.ac.uk
    ftpserver.massey.ac.nz

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*-3.  Who helped write this FAQ?

The information in the FAQ is a collection generated from my personal
knowledge and with the help of the following people who I'm very grateful
to:

Geoff Arnold    ([e-mail])        Sun Microsystems
Farid Rahmi    ([e-mail])                Sunbim (?)
Marty Udescci    ([e-mail])        The Wollongong Group
Chip Sparling    ([e-mail])            FTP Software
Fred Whiteside    ([e-mail])            Beame & Whiteside
C. J. Sacksteder, et. al.  ([e-mail])    Penn State Univ.
Dean         ([e-mail])        Frontier Tech.
Winifred Crowther                Beame & Whiteside
Kenneth Adelman    ([e-mail])        TGV, Inc.
Bruce Miller    ([e-mail])        TGV, Inc.
John Keyes    ([e-mail])    Sun Microsystems
Vernon Schryver    ([e-mail])            SGI, Inc.
Marc Wiz    ([e-mail])        IBM Corp. (The Core Group)
Dave Fetrow    ([e-mail]) Univ. of Washington
Fritz Mueller    ([e-mail])        NetManage, Inc.
Zvi Alon    ([e-mail])        NetManage, Inc.
Brian Pawlowski    ([e-mail])    Sun Microsystems
Edmund J. Sutcliffe    ([e-mail])    Univ. of York
Erick Engelke    -                Independent
Giovanni Novelli                 Xtreme s.a.s
Danny Thomas     ([e-mail])    Independent
Thomas Dwyer III ([e-mail])        Independent
Geert Jan de Groot      ([e-mail])    Philips
Francis K. Selkirk      ([e-mail])        ftp Software Inc.
Alan Arndt     ([e-mail])        Comtech Labs
Gavin Longmuir   ([e-mail])     Australian Nat'l Univ.
George Brad Weiner      ([e-mail])        AGE Logic, Inc.
George Stump                    The Wollongong Group, Inc.
Bob MacFadgen    ([e-mail])        Ipswitch, Inc.

Special thanks to:
Edmund Sutcliffe & the University of York for providing an FTP site and his
endless help.

Geoff Arnold for placing the FAQ on the comp.protocols.nfs FTP sites.

C.J.Sacksteder for allowing the use of portions of his document,
"Features of TCP/IP Packages for DOS and Windows"

Brian Pawlowski for allowing the use of his list of bibliographic entries on
papers for NFS, XDR, and RPC.

To any others that I may have forgotten, you have the right to look me up
in Tucson and demand a beer out of me.

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*-4.  Who maintains this FAQ?

This FAQ is maintained by Rawn Shah. Any additions, clarifications,
modifications and other changes to the FAQ should be directed to me. You can
reach me at any of the following addresses (in order of preferrence):
        [e-mail]
        [e-mail]

You can also contact me at the following postal address:

Rawn Shah
RTD Systems & Networking, Inc.
2601 N. Campbell Ste 202B,
Tucson, AZ 85719
USA

or the following US phone numbers:
Phone: [phone]
FAX:   [phone]

This FAQ list may not be modified or redistributed under any other name
other than that reserved by the author. You may reproduce the FAQ and
distribute it freely as long as you maintain the original author.

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*-5.  Who maintains comp.protocols.nfs?

This is an unmoderated USENET newsgroup although there are regular posters
who will be able to help with your questions related to (PC)NFS products.

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*-6.  Where are the archives for comp.protocols.nfs?

The archives for comp.protocols.nfs are kept at the following FTP sites:
    bcm.tmc.edu
    src.doc.ic.ac.uk
    ftpserver.massey.ac.nz

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*-7.  Trademarks and Registered names.

AppleTalk, LocalTalk and Macintosh are registered trademarks and MacX and
  A/UX are trademarks of Apple Computer Corp.
VMS, and OpenVMS are registered trademarks of Digital Equipment Corp.
ONC, NFS, NIS & PC-NFS are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems
  Computer Corp.
PC/TCP and Interdrive are trademarks of FTP Software Inc.
BW-TCP and BW-NFS are trademarks of Beame & Whiteside Software, Ltd.
IBM, IBM PC, AIX & OS/2 are registered trademarks and LAN Server is a
  trademark  of International Business Machines, Inc.
Chameleon, ChameleonNFS and Newt are trademarks of NetManage Corp.
DEC, VMS, OpenVMS, DECnet are registered trademarks and eXcursion and
  DECwindows are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation
TSSNet is a trademark of Thursby Software Systems, Inc.
PathWay, PathWay Access & PathWay Client NFS are trademarks of The
  Wollongong Group
SuperTCP is a trademark of Frontier Technologies, Inc.
XVision is a trademark of VisionWare Software Ltd., UK.
eNFS is a trademark of INTERSTREAM, Inc.
AIR is a trademark of SPRY, Inc.
ODI and LAN WorkPlace are trademarks of Novell, Inc.
NDIS, MS-DOS and MS-Windows are registered trademarks and LAN Manager is a
  trademark of Microsoft Corp.
MOTIF is a trademark of the Open Software Foundation, Inc.
WINQVT/NET and WINQVT/NFS are trademarks of QPC Software Corp.
HCL-eXceed, HCL-eXceed Plus, and HCL-eXtend are trademarks of Hummingbird
 Software, Ltd.
TCPOpen is a trademark of Lanera Corp.
UNIX is a trademark of Unix Systems Laboratories
Multinet is a trademark of TGV, Inc.
PC-Xware & PC-Xview are trademarks of NCD, Inc.
PC-Xsight is a trademark of Locus Computing Corp.
Multiview/X is a trademark of JSB Corporation
PC X-server & PC-Link are trademarks of XLink Corp.
eXodus is a trademark of White Pines Software.
CU/TCP is a trademark of Clarkson University and Rutgers University
NCSA Telnet is a trademark of the National Center for Supercomputing
  Applications.
Micro X-Lite is a trademark of StarNet Communications Corp.
AIR is a trademark of SPRY, Inc.
ICE.TCP is a trademark of the James River Group, Inc.
Piper/IP is a trademark of Ipswitch, Inc.

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*-8.  What do the -, + and * before the questions mean?

The - is used to signify that the question is out of date or has no
information related with it.

The + is used to signify that the question has been recently updated with
new information or corrections have been made to the answer.

The * signifies the question as a new one as of the current FAQ version

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*-9.  Whats up and coming in the next issue of the FAQ list?

The FAQ is expanding at good rate and I'm still waiting for it to level off.
Coming issues should include:
    - a few more TCP products (VxDTCP, DLink, etc)
    - a better description of NFS 3 once I finish reading it.
    - Cello, trumpet, MacWAIS, etc.

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A. Basics
=========

A-1.  What is NFS?

Network File System (NFS) is file system that will mount remote file systems
across homogenous and heterogenous systems. NFS consists of a client and
server systems. An NFS server can export local directories for remote NFS
clients to use. NFS runs over IP using UDP (commonly). There are NFS
implementations that will work using TCP as the network transport service.
NFS was originally developed by Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. (SMCC) and
is now part of their Open Network Computing (ONC) initiative. NFS has been
accepted by the IETF in certain RFC's (see question F-X) as a standard for
file services on TCP/IP networks on the Internet.

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A-2.  What is (PC)NFS?

(PC)NFS is a generic term referring to all NFS systems running on IBM PC and
compatible systems as well as other Personal Computer systems as defined
upon by the X/Open Group.

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A-3.  Where can I get (PC)NFS for my DOS system?

(PC)NFS for DOS systems is available from the following vendors:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Product Name    Vendor                  Pricing                 Entry
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
AIR        SPRY                        Z-1
PC-NFS          SunSelect              *$435                    Z-13
BWNFS           Beame & Whiteside      *$395                    Z-2
PC/TCP          FTP Corp.              *$400                    Z-14
IBM TCP/IP    IBM                        Z-17
LAN Manager TCP    Microsoft                    Z-6
PathWay         The Wollongong Group   *                        Z-11
SuperTcp        Frontier Tech.         *$495                    Z-16
LAN Workplace    Novell            $            Z-7

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

* means other pricings available see corresponding entry for product in
  Section Z.

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A-4.  Where can I get (PC)NFS for my MS-Windows system?

(PC)NFS for MS-Windows is available from the following vendors:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Product Name    Vendor                  Pricing                 Entry
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
AIR        SPRY            $            Z-1
PC-NFS          SunSelect              *$435                    Z-13
BWNFS           Beame & Whiteside      *$349                    Z-2
Distinct     Distinct Corp.                    Z-5
TCPOpen        Lanera Corp.                        Z-19
PC/TCP          FTP Corp.              *$400                    Z-14
PathWay         The Wollongong Group   *                        Z-11
ChameleonNFS    NetManage              *$495                    Z-3
SuperTCP        Frontier Tech.                                  Z-16
WinQVT/Net      QPC Inc.                $40 (shareware)         Z-22
                                        $20 (student)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

* other pricings available; see corresponding entry for product in
  Section Z.

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A-5.  Where can I get NFS for my Macintosh system?

You can get NFS clients for Macintosh from:
    The Wollongong Group: PathWay NFS [Z-11]
    Intercon: NFS/Share [Z-9]

There are also packages for hardware gateways which will allow Macintosh
systems to NFS drive systems. Cayman systems puts out the GatorShare
software for their GatorBox and GatorStar series which gateway LocalTalk
based Macintosh systems onto an Ethernet and allow IP tunneling inside
Appletalk to reach external systems. GatorShare allows Macintoshs to mount
NFS disks as AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) volumes which are displayed as
remote drives on the Apple Chooser. Shiva & Fallaron have similar gateway
(DDP-IP) systems.

IPT has a software only system that works in concert with one of the above
mentioned hardware systems that allow Unix systems to export disks as AFP
volumes. IPT's Partner is not in strict sense an NFS system. It implements
Appletalk on Unix systems and exports drives and printers as Appletalk ones.
CAP (Columbia Appletalk) is a public domain package which has similar
services.

Work is currently in progress to produce a software based DDP-IP package
that will connect LocalTalk Macintoshes through a Mac system with both
LocalTalk & Ethernet interfaces to Ethernet based IP systems. Hopefully the
project will be completed before October. Initial prospects are to
distribute this as shareware.

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A-6.  What is PC-NFS as opposed to (PC)NFS?

PC-NFS is a specific NFS product for PC systems from SunSelect. PC-NFS is a
registered trademark and so should NOT be used as a generic term describing
all NFS systems on PC's. (PC)NFS is a generic term describing NFS systems on
PC's as decided upon by the members of X/Open.

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A-7. What is TCP/IP?

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is the main
transport protocol used on the Internet for connectivity and transmission of
data across heterogenous systems. It is an open standard which is available
on most Unix systems, VMS and other minicomputer systems, many mainframe &
supercomputing systems and some microcomputer & PC systems.

TCP/IP is a software solution for network connectivity. There is little
assumption on the hardware system used for actual physical connections. The
most common hardware solution is Ethernet, but TCP/IP will also run on
Token-Ring, AT&T StarLAN, microwave & spread spectrum systems , LocalTalk
(needs a gateway), Serial lines (modems, serial connections) and other
systems as well.

To run TCP/IP on a system you first need a hardware driver. On Macintosh
systems, the hardware drivers are built into the system or is provided by
the board manufacturer. On a PC system, there are different types of
hardware drivers available both commercially and via public domain/shareware
including the Packet driver specification by FTP Software, Inc., Microsoft's
Network Device Interface Specification (NDIS), & Novell's Open Datalink
Interface (ODI). Drivers for OS/2 systems are available from IBM and/or the
board manufacturer (if they support OS/2).  If a driver is not available for
your hardware, look for a shim. This is a software device which translates
between two driver specifications. There are shims for ODI-on-NDIS,
NDIS-on-Packet driver. ODI-on-Packet driver, etc.  usually publically
available.

You then need a TCP/IP stack. This is package specific usually comes with
every product. Each such stack has its own requirements for hardware
drivers. you must find a combination of driver & TCP/IP stack which is
compatible with your hardware & system. Macintosh's do not have a problem
since most Macintosh systems use the MacTCP stack which is available from
Apple and is provided with most if not all Macintosh TCP/IP packages. PC
systems have something close to a standard in TCP applications called the
Windows Sockets API (Winsock). [Note: This is not specific only to TCP/IP it
is a general standard for networking on PC irrelevant of the transport
protocol. Hence, there may be versions for NetBEUI, IPX, etc.]. The Winsock
API is avaialble in 16 bit and 32 bit versions. The 32 bit versions are for
Windows NT systems. Winsock is implemented in Dynamically Loaded Libraries
or DLLs. Currently work is under way to develop a freeware Winsock DLL but
many commercial versions are available.

With the TCP/IP stack in hand, you then need all the TCP/IP application
programs such as Telnet, FTP, mail, etc. Just about every TCP/IP package has
a corresponding set of applications although some do not provide all the
different applications available.

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A-8. What is telnet? What is ftp?

Telnet & FTP are two TCP/IP applications for remote host access and remote
file transfer, respectively. Any host with a telnet client can connect to
any host with a telnet server. Any work done within a telnet session is
executed on the server host, thus for most intents and purposes your are on
the remote server, virtually. FTP clients can connect to FTP servers to
transfer files either direction. You can preserve the file contents
independent of the client and server hosts.

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A-9.  What is a client? What is a server? Why do I need them?

A client application uses resources available on a remote site. This remote
site runs a server for this purpose. NFS is a client-server technology. You
need an NFS client to mount remote disks or directories. The server makes
these disks or directories available for other systems to use. For example,
If you have an NFS client on your PC, you can mount remote drives on your
PC. However, if that PC does not have an NFS server, then you cannot make it
possible for other systems to use your local drive.

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A-10.  Where can I get (PC)NFS cheap/free/PD?

There are currently no free or shareware NFS _client_ packages
available. Please read [A-X].

SOSS [Y-6] is a public domain NFS _server_ available by FTP.

There are, however, a few different TCP/IP packages available as shareware
and freeware such as WATTCP, NCSA Telnet, CU/TCP, WinQVT (shareware). Please
see the product list in section Z for appropriate referrences.

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A-11. What is SOS & SOSS? Where can I get it?

SOS (stan's own server) is the original NFS server developed by See-Mong Tan
and is a public domain nfs server.

SOSS (son of stan's server) is a souped up version of SOS developed by Rich
Braun, et al with better performance capabilities.

SOS is still available although it is advised that you use SOSS when
necessary. SOSS is available at the following site:
    grape.ecs.clarkson.edu

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A-12.  Are there any free NFS clients available for DOS?

There was once a project at the Univ. of Maryland which made an NFS client
for free distribution but is now no longer available.

There have also been reports that NCSA Telnet may come out with an NFS
client in the future but so far there hasn't been any further news on that.

There is a client being developed for the WATTCP package by Micheal Durkin.
This will be released as shareware ($15) in executable format only. Source
code may be available depending on the authors preference.

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A-13.  What is SLIP?

Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) is a standard on the Internet for
serial line and modem connectivity between two systems. This allows any one
SLIP client to connect to a SLIP server to provide connectivity between
different IP hosts. Both systems must have TCP/IP stacks running. Certain
SLIP packages even allow the SLIP client to act as a gateway between a local
network and a remote network, ie. all machines on the local network can
connect automatically over the SLIP line to remote systems and vice versa.
SLIP packages are available for PC systems. See G-1.

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A-14.  What is PPP?

PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) is a direct link protocol which works over
serial lines and direct links similar to SLIP. Overall it gets more
throughput than SLIP. The remote host needs to accept PPP connections and
the local host should act as a client.

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Section B. Basics
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B-1. What are the different specification types of drivers available?

The following are common specification types of drivers available:

A. Packet drivers - freely available set of drivers on the net maintained by
    ftp Software and also in part by Russell Nelson of Crynwyr.

B. NDIS v2.0 & v3.0 - Network Device Interface Specification developed by
    Microsoft and 3Com. Version 2.0 is the current version for
    MS-Windows and Windows for Workgroups. Version 3.0 is the new
    specification for MS-Windows NT.

C. ODI - Open Driver Interface developed by Novell, Inc.

D. SLIP, PPP - These are more protocol specifications for serial and
    distance links. Both are defined in the Internet RFCs. PPP is
    described initially in RFC 1172 with related descriptions in 1331-1334,
    1376-1378, and several newer ones. SLIP is described in RFC 1055.

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B-3.  What are packet drivers? Where do I get them?

Packet drivers are the link between your Network interface card and your
TCP/IP protocol stack (of each application). They are a low level driver
specification with support for many different Network interface cards.

The packet driver specification is maintained by FTP Software and is
available from:
    vax.ftp.com:/pub/packet-d.*

Russ Nelson of Crynwyr, Inc. ([e-mail]) also maintains many packet
drivers. He also maintains the FAQ available for packet drivers
on comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc. This FAQ can be received by ftp from the
following sites:
    seagull.rtd.com: /pub/tcpip/other-faqs/pktdrv.faq

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B-4.  Can I run packet drivers with (PC)NFS?

Yes. See chart G-1 for compatibility with different packages.

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B-5.  Can I run (PC)NFS over SLIP?

Yes. See chart G-1 for availability in the different products for PC
systems.

Macintosh systems can run NFS/Share from Intercon with the InterSLIP package
copyrighted & freely distributed by Intercon available from:
    ftp.intercon.com: InterCon/sales/InterSLIP1.0fc3.sea.hqx

This will run with MacTCP 1.1.1.

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B-6.  Can (PC)NFS run with NDIS drivers?

Yes. See chart G-1 for availability in the different products.

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B-7.  Can I run (PC)NFS at the same time as CUTCP or NCSA Telnet?

Yes. You need to run PKTMUX.EXE. This will multiplex connections between two
different applications using packet drivers. PKTMUX allows one to run
multiple TCP/IP protocol stacks.

There is also a version of CUTCP which runs over SunSelect's PC-NFS and is
available via ftp from:
    ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc/pc-nfs/cutcp/CUTCP.ZIP

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B-8.  Can (PC)NFS run with NDIS drivers?

Yes. Please look at chart G-1 for compatibility with different products.

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B-9.  Can I use (PC)NFS to mount a diskless PC from a remote server?

Yes. The following products have this capability:
    PC-NFS
    PC/TCP
    BW-NFS
    AIR for Windows

PC-NFS can be installed partially onto disk to access network applications
like telnet, ftp, etc. placed on a remote server.

PC/TCP also has PROM chips for ethernet cards for diskless PCs to boot with
network services.

In Europe, BOOTP PROMs are available from Dirk Keoppen [[e-mail]].
These PROMs support a large number of Ethernet cards and works with many
versions of (PC)NFS including that from SunSelect, FTP Software, Novell and
Microsoft LAN Manager.

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B-10.  Can (PC)NFS run over token ring?

Yes. See chart G-1 for availability in the different products.

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B-11.  Can I use my 3C509 Etherlink III card with (PC)NFS ?

Yes. The 3C509 has both NDIS and ODI drivers shipping with the box. Trouble is
some are not where they are supposed to be. The NDIS drivers are in the following directory on the floppy :

A:\MSLANMAN.DOS\DRIVERS\ETHERNET

Also, a packet driver is obtainable for this card (also see B-1)

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B-12 Can I PC-NFS SLIP at higher baud rates than 9600 ?

The built-in slip driver will not allow any higher speeds than 9600, but there
is a way around this. Instead of using SLIP.SYS, you can always configure
PC-NFS in packet driver mode (look for the PKTD.SYS shim) and use a shareware
slip driver than conforms to the packet driver specification. Ask archie
about SLIPPER.EXE or ETHERSL.COM.

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B-13 Can I access an MSCDEX CD-ROM with PC-NFS ?

No, but you can fool your PC by using an 'MSCDEX simulator', i.e. a small
utility that will redirect the interrupt used by MSCDEX and return constant
values. Does not work will all the published CD's, but is worth the try.

Mounting an ISO9660 CDROM over NFS is not always sufficient to get full access
to the application residing on it. Some utilies refer to MSCDEX for various
reasons. So, can you use the NFS-mounted volume and still have full MSCDEX
access ? No, but you can fool your PC by using an 'MSCDEX simulator', i.e. a
small utility that will redirect the interrupt used by MSCDEX and return
constant values. Does not work will all the published CD's, but is worth the
try. These utils are obtainable from ftp.york.ac.uk (/pub/pc-nfs/CD-rom)

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B-14.  Can I run NDIS over Packet drivers?

Yes. You can run packet drivers along with the DISPKT9.COM shim and run the
program as a generic NDIS driver.

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B-15.  Which is better NDIS or ODI?

After a small discussion, it seems that ODI is generally faster and it does
not need be to loaded in the config.sys which helps enormously during
debugging and development).

Both NDIS and ODI are widely available with most Ethernet cards and many
Token-Ring cards as well.

ODI however has one slight problem when it comes to development. Although it
is an "open" specification and is available via ftp, Russel Nelson of
Crynwyr pointed out that:

Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
"
The documentation for Novell's driver development kit is available
from dev_docs/lan_drv.  This should not be mistaken for a
specification of an "open" interface.  If you want to write an "ODI
driver" (that is, the thing that adapter manufacturers ship), you
must purchase the Lan Driver Development Kit for $7,000.  When I
suggested to Novell that they should document the LSL <--> MLID
interface, they seemed somewhat bemused, as if to say "Whyever would
you want that?? -- just buy the DDK!"

Apparently, there *is* no "ODI driver" spec -- Novell doesn't even
have an internal document for the LSL <--> MLID interface.
"

You can FTP the NDIS specification from:
    vax.ftp.com

You can FTP the ODI specification from:
    sjf-lwp.sjf.novell.com:/dev_docs/{lan_drv, pstacks}/*
    [email to Dave Murphy [e-mail]]

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Section C. Server
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C-1.  What is pcnfsd? What is pcnfsdv2? What is BWNFSD?

PCNFSD is the server software run on remote systems for service access such
as User authorization and print services. PCNFSD is freely distributed. It
was originally designed for SunSelect's PC-NFS software package but has been
accepted by the X/Open committee as a semi-standard for (PC)NFS.

PCNFSDv2 is the current version of this server software.

BWNFSD is an alternate server package from Beame & Whiteside, Inc. which is
also freely distributable.

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C-2.  Where can I get PCNFSD for my server system?

PCNFSD has been ported to many different platforms.  The following is a list
of FTP sites for the different versions:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Platform            Location
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
SunOS 4.x, Solaris,    bcm.tmc.edu
Solbourne,         src.doc.ic.ac.uk
NeXTStep        ftp.york.ac.uk:/pun/pv/pc-nfs/RPC.pcnfs/*
Ultrix 4.2        bcm.tmc.edu
IRIX/SYSV        sgi.sgi.com:/support/pcnfsd.sysV    [unsupported]
            ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc/pc-nfs/RPC.pcnfsd/*
AIX 3.2            Call IBM and ask for PTF# U412556
AIX 3.2.1        Call IBM and ask for PTF# U419359
AIX 3.2.3        Call IBM and ask for PTF# U414701
MIPS platforms        ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc/pc-nfs/RPC.pcnfsd/*
IBM MVS            Call IBM and ask for PTF# UY84244 [pcnfsd v1 only]
OpenVMS 5.5        DEC TCP/IP v3.0 [product]
SCO Unix v3.2        SCO NFS [product]
HP 9000 [HP-UX 9.x]    HP-UX NFS [product]

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

There is a combined version of PCNFSD v2 for the following systems: Sun,
Ultrix, MIPS, SGI, BSD, SVR4 which is available from
    ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/RPC.pcnfs/pcnfsd.tar.Z

BWNFSD (V3.0f) is available from:

    dorm.rutgers.edu: /pub/msdos/bws/bwnfsd
    ftp.bws.com: /pub/bw/bwnfsd

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C-4.  How can I test NFS performance?

The following information does not contain information on LADDIS which is a
newer test suite for NFS systems. Please look at C-10 for information on
LADDIS.

The following is a post from the archives from a while back which answers
this directly:

   As it turns out, there's a surprising amount of software floating around
that looks at NFS.  Such software includes:

    nfswatch -- curses-based promiscuous NFS monitor.  This program
        prints out a running tally of how many of each type of
        request comes in, and of which file systems are the most
        heavily used.  Nfswatch can be used to look at traffic to
        individual files, too.  This is anonymously FTPable from
        icarus.riacs.edu.

    server_stat -- a NFS monitor program that runs on Encore Multimaxes.
        This shows information on hosts, users, and NFS request
        types performed.  This is capable of talking to a
        rpc.srvstatd process on another machine, though I don't know
        of other machines that support the Encore srvstatd program.

    nfsstone -- the Encore NFS benchmark, as presented in:

        Shein, B., Callahan, M., Woodbury, P., NFSSTONE: A Network
        File Server Performance Benchmark, Usenix Summer 1989
        conference proceedings, pp 269-275.

        This is a synthetic benchmark load, with an empirically-
        determined mix of operations.

    nhfsstone -- the Legato NFS benchmark.  This is also a synthetic
        load generator, based again on a particular observed
        load mix.  You can get this by sending mail like:

            To: [e-mail]
            Subject: send nhfsstone

            path path_back_to_me

        I had some problems getting this, though I was ultimately
        successful.

    NetMetrix (formerly EtherView) --
        a Sun-based packet spy that is capable of doing some
        characterization of NFS load and response times.  This is
        a commercial product.  For more information, contact:

            Hewlett Packard, Network Test Division
            One Tara Blvd., Suite 403, Nashua NH 03062
            [phone]

    LANWatch -- another packet spy, from FTP Software, Inc.  This can
        filter out NFS traffic; I don't know what can be done with
        the packets though once they're filtered out.  For more
        information, call FTP at (800) 282-4FTP, or send mail to
        [e-mail].

    [ There's lots of other packet spies, too, and I suspect that most
    of them can do at least a little bit with NFS packets. ]

   The problem with most of the programs above (except for the synthetic
loads, to which this just doesn't apply, since they're not NFS monitors) is
that you don't get raw data points which you can then analyze.  You get the
data that the authors thought you might want...  and which might not be what
you really want.  There's much to be said for the approach of dumping traces
and lots of timestamps into a file, then providing (a) programs that analyze
such files, and (b) the format of the files, so that people can write their
own analysis programs.  On a PC-based packet spy, this is a hard thing to
do.

   There's a fair number of people (at the major NFS server vendors, Sun,
DEC, and a few universities) who are also poking around at the problem.
Some people are looking at filesystem activity tracers, which (in addition
to being interesting research on its own) could provide still more reams of
interesting statistics when combined with a NFS tracer.

   The consensus was that the best way to trace NFS operations is to do so
via a promiscuous packet spy.  Such an approach has many advantages.  First,
if you don't have kernel sources, you can still get useful information.
Second, because you don't instrument the server kernel, you don't have to
worry about influencing the experiment in adverse ways.  However, there's
some chance (depending on your hardware and on how fast you make your
software go) that you'll drop packets.  The 'hack the server kernel'
approach won't drop any requests, but violates the above constraints.  I
suspect that the best way to gather statistics is by using *both* methods of
measurement, then comparing the results.

   I was also referred (twice) to the SunOS 4.1 NFS implementation, and in
particular the adaptive NFS retransmission code therein.  These numbers might
be interesting to see, once 4.1 is more easily available.

   Of course, the usual Unix file access pattern (i.e., lots of short-lived
files in /tmp, most of which get written, then read once, then deleted)
information applies.  This was mentioned by several people; one reference
given was:

    Floyd, Rick, Short-Term File Reference Patterns in a UNIX Environment,
        University of Rochester Department of Computer Science TR 177,
        March 1986.

   Another good paper (with not much data on NFS, though) is:

    Lazowska et al, "File Access Performance of Diskless Workstations",
        ACM TOCS, volume 4, number 3, August 1986, pp 238-268.

   Not a whole lot was said about general models of NFS access.  Most places
that had any models had derived them from some number of studies and from
the output of nfsstat, or so it seemed.  It does seem that there's a few
general trends, however.  There are some sites (including ours, I suspect)
that fall into the low-utilization, few write model, where the server rarely
satisfies more than one client's NFS requests in some given time slot.
There's also the high-utilization, many write model, which is what I'm sure
a lot of sites see.  One responder said that once one's clients have enough
memory, the buffer cache ends up reducing the number of random reads going
on, so one is left with the reads that happen to start up a new process, and
with writes.

   Those who talked about models generally said that they think there's
almost as many models as there are networks using NFS.  I suspect that this
is true, but that perhaps some useful information (or at least methods) can
be abstracted out, regardless.

   A number of people also suggested that I talk to Legato and to Auspex and
see what they've done in this area.  I have a couple of papers from Auspex;
at a first glance, I don't think they look too closely at NFS load
characterization (at least, not as I define that), but instead concentrate
on what Auspex did to get better speed out of their NFS file server.  The
Auspex paper titled, "Benchmark Methodology and Preliminary Performance
Specifications for the Auspex NS5000 Network Server" (Bruce Nelson, Auspex
TR #2, October 1989) has more load characterization information than do the
other Auspex TRs I have, but it still doesn't have a whole lot.  (By the
way, I'm not implying that Auspex hasn't looked at load characterization,
because they obviously have.  I just don't have the fine details of their
results.)  I also did some talking with people at Legato; their comments and
models show up in the nhfsstone benchmark, or are otherwise repeated above.

    -Steve

Spoken: Steve Miller    Domain: [e-mail]    UUCP: uunet!mimsy!steve
Phone: [phone]  USPS: UMIACS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

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C-5.  What is NHFSSTONES? Where can I get it?

"Nhfsstone" (pronounced n-f-s-stone, the "h" is silent) is a
copyrighted product of Legato Systems, Incorporated and is provided for
unrestricted use and distribution of the binary program derived from
it.

nhfsstone is a NFS load generating program.  It is used on an NFS client
to generate an artificial load with a particular mix of NFS operations.
It reports the average response time of the server in milliseconds per
call and the load in calls per second.  The program adjusts its calling
patterns based on the client's kernel NFS statistics and the elapsed
time.  Load can be generated over a given time or number of NFS calls.
The current version of the program can only be compiled on 4.x BSD
based UNIX systems.

To obtain the nhfsstone source shar file, send email to
"[e-mail]" or {sun,uunet}!legato!request.  The Subject line
and/or body of the message should have contain the command line:

    send unsupported nhfsstone

Note the exact spelling of "nhfsstone".  To issue delivery, you should
also add a line of the form:

    path <address>

where <address> is the preferred email address to use.  Generally,
using a domain-style email address works best.  A uucp path starting
with "sun!" or "uunet!" can also be used.


Joseph Moran
Legato Systems Inc.
260 Sheridan Avenue
Palo Alto, CA  94306
[phone]
[e-mail] or {sun,uunet}!legato!mojo

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C-7.  How many nfsd's & biod's should I run on my server?

Default number of nfsd's & biod's is 8

Suggested Equation for nfsd's is:
    [number of disks exported] + [number of network interfaces]

Suggested maximum number of nfsd's runinng on a Sun system (SunOS 4.x) without any
accelerators is 22. Any more does not help in performance.

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C-8.  What is asynchronous I/O? How can I modify my NFS server system to use
      asynchronous I/O?

Asynchronous I/O (ASYNC) means that information comes and leaves at unannounced
intervals whereas synchronous I/O (SYNC) has a predetermined interval when
I/O can actually pass.

NFS has been used both through SYNC and ASYNC communications. The original
specification stated that SYNC I/O should be used although did not bind to
it. This results in slower communications during transfers. ASYNC creates
problems in that, if for some reason communications should fail (eg., your
NFS server crashes), there may be inconsistency in the data. The bright side
of ASYNC is that performance increases by a great deal.

Many implementations of NFS using asynchronous I/O are available. Despite
the disadvantage, the number of complaints about data loss due to this are
far fewer than the reports of performance increase. However, be warned that
asynchronous I/O is a direct violation of the NFS specification from X/Open
which states that all procedures of the NFS protocol are synchronous. This
makes such a server no longer compliant to X/Open

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C-9.  What is a good NFS server?

Network Appliances Corp have recently come out with a product which they
call an NFS appliance, the FAServer. It is a 486 based system with an EISA
bus, 16 MB RAM, 2 MB NVRAM, and a RAID subsystem. The RAID subsystem keeps
up to 20 logical copies of the entire file system. They have a proprietory
operating system which does only simple management and disk serving.
The pricing is about $20,000.

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C-10.  What is LADDIS?

LADDIS is multi-vendor and vendor neutral SPEC NFS Benchmack designed by
engineers from Leato, Auspex, Data General, DEC, Interphase and Sun [LADDIS
is an abbreviation using their first letters]. This covers local Ethernet or
FDDI nets and not WAN.

An excerpt from the LADDIS abstract:
"
    The purpose of the LADDIS benchmark is to give users a credible and
    undisputed test of NFS performance, and to give vendors a publishable
    standard performance measure that customers can use for load planning,
    system configuration, and equipment buying decisions. Toward this end,
    the LADDIS benchmark is being adopted by SPEC (the System Performance
    Evaluation Cooperative, creators of SPECmarks) as the first member of
    SPEC's System-level File Server (SFS) benchmark suite."
"

LADDIS is available directly from SPEC. Here is the contact person:

    Name:    Dianne Dean (SPEC contact person at NCGA)
    Phone:    [phone] Ext 318
    Fax:    [phone]
    Email:    [e-mail]
    Mail:    SPEC
        c/o NCGA
        2722 Merrilee Drive, Suite 200
        Fairfax, VA 22031-4499


There is about a $1000 charge for the distribution tape.

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C-11.  What is XRemote & LBX?

These are specifications for running the X11 windows system over lower
bandwidth connections like serial lines.

XRemote is a private specification developed by NCD. Inc. It is available in
commercial packages.
LBX (Low-Bandwidth X) is the specification also contributed by NCD to the
X11 standard forthcoming next year, ie. X11R6. You can get information on
LBX via FTP from:
    export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/LBX-xconf93-paper.ps.Z

This is not a formal document only an informative disclosure.

Running a low bandwidth X protocol over something like Ethernet would not be
useful since the compression algorithms involved would incur additional CPU
usage and so you would not get much of a performance advantage at all.

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Section D: Applications
=======================

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D-1.  Where can I get mail with (PC)NFS?

POPmail versions 2 and 3 and SMTP are the most common mail protocols for
(PC)NFS and TCP/IP systems for PCs. Please look at the chart G-3 for mail
systems.

Here are some additional third-party mail packages that work with PC-NFS:
    a. Open Systems Mail by Pinesoft (US) [[e-mail]]

    b. Mail-It by Unipalm (UK) [[e-mail]]
           Tom Kermeen
           Unipalm Ltd
           216 Cambridge Science Park
           Milton Road
           Cambridge CB4 4WA
           UK
           [phone]
           [phone] [FAX]
        [Site license is available for L5000 (five-thousand pounds)]

        Distributed in the US by:
           Unipress Software
           2025 Lincoln Highway,
           Edison, NJ 08817
           USA
           [phone]
           [e-mail]

    c. WinELM was written by Peter Churchyard of Imperial College,
       London. It is available for winsock systems from the ftp site
           ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/Mail/winelm.zip
           lister.cc.ic.ac.uk:/pub/winelm
       There are also DOS, PC-NFS and WinSock API versions there.

    d. ECSMail is a commercial package which supports IMAP & MIME
       contact [e-mail]. I also supports Macintosh & Unix
       You can get a demo version of ECSMail from
        ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/Mail/ecs.zip
       [The demo requires an IMAP daemon such as in the Pine mailer]

    e. Cin'etic Mail Manager works directly with mounted file systems
           and sends mail via different setups like rsh on PC-NFS. Its
       publicaly availble via ftp (cmm21f.zip). You can also contact
       them at:
        [e-mail]
        71460,666 (Compuserve)
       This package currently supports PathWay, PC/TCP, PC-NFS, FSUUCP
       by Fubar Systems, UUPC/extended by Drew Derbyshire. Its
       configuarble for other systems as well.

In addition, for mail arrival notifiers, there is WinBiff (version 1.6)
for MS-Windows 3.x that works with PC-NFS, UUPC, Waffle and FSUUCP. This is
available from:
    ftp.cica.indiana.edu: /pub/pc/win3/mirrors/wnbff16.zip
    wsmr-simtel20.army.mil: PD1:<MSDOS.WINDOWS> WNBFF16.ZIP

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D-2.  Where can I get a news client for (PC)NFS?

USENET News (NNTP) clients are available specifically from:
   Super-TCP [Z-16] - Windows version
   WinQVT    [Z-22] - Windows version
   Chameleon [Z-3]  - DOS version.

There is a public domain program called WinVN which uses the Winsock API.
This means that just about any product which has the Winsock.dll should be
able to run it. It is available from:
    sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps/winvn.zip

Trump and WinTrump are other popular packages for news available from
    sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps/*

A simple news client by Stan Barber and a client by Kjettil Otter Olsen
(with source code) are avalable from
    ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/news

WinVN is a newsreader for Windows 3.x systems publically available from:
    titan.ksc.nasa.gov: [anonymous.pub.win3.winvn]    (Its a VAX host)

Macintosh newsreaders include:
    TheNews
    Newsreader
    MacNews
    Nuntius
All are available from:
    mac.archive.umich.edu:/mac/util/comm/*

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D-3.  Where can I get an FTP server for (PC)NFS?

The following systems have FTP servers:

BW-TCP, PC-NFS, PC/TCP, Chameleon, PathWay, Super-TCP, IBM TCP/IP, Lanera TCP

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D-4   Where can I get RWALL for my (PC)NFS system?

As far as memory serves me there currently are no implementations of the
rwall command as in Sun ONC on (PC)NFS systems, except possibly one for
the Macintosh NFS/Share product from Intercon.

Sorry folks. If anyone has information on this one please mail me, there are
people who want to know.

Here is what Geoff Arnold had to say about it back in 1989:
"
One of the questions I am often asked about PC-NFS is "how come
there's no way for me to find out when a particular file server
is going down? Unix users get notified." I point out that (at least
on SunOS) the mechanism used is "rwall", which is an RPC service, and that
for size reasons we can't afford to embed a version of rpc.rwalld in
PC-NFS. This explanation is reasonable, but unsatisfactory.

My reaction was to say "let's ask the NIC for a UDP port so that
we can use it to send unsolicited messages to PCs running PC-NFS."
That would certainly do the trick. However, a moment's thought
reveals that the problem is bigger than just PC-NFS. Surprisingly,
there is at present no simple ubiquitous message protocol to fulfil this
function. rwall is fine for SunOS and other ONC licensees, but
what about other systems? Do I have to rely upon SMTP? That's
incompatible with the idea of broadcasting a simple message
such as "The backbone will be down for five minutes at 12:00
to replace a bridge."

This could be trivially simple or slightly more involved
(but still simple). The trivial approach is to dedicate
a UDP port for unsolicited system messages. Anyone could send one,
in a single datagram, and the listener process would be responsible
for delivering it as seemed appropriate for the system (dialog
box, console message, etc.) A more complete approach would be to
define a formal protocol so that it would be possible to convey
information about the coding of the message, message length (so that
TCP could be used instead) and so forth. [If the spec exceeds
one page, it's too complicated.]

Comments?

Geoff
"

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D-5.  Where can I get an INT-14 redirector for (PC)NFS?

INT-14 redirectors are available with various (PC)NFS products including:
    BW-NFS        [Z-2]
    PC/TCP         [Z-14]
    Chamelon NFS    [Z-3]

There is a version for PC-NFS v5.0 (by Geoff Arnold) at:
    ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils/int14/*
    sorokin.anu.edu.au:/pub/nfs5-addons/int14.zip

An INT-14 redirectory for WATTCP is available from:
    dorm.rutgers.edu:/pub/msdos/wattcp/apps.zip

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D-6.  Where can I get YPPASSWD for PC-NFS?

There is a version of YPPASSWD for PC-NFS v5.0 at:
      ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils/yppasswd/yppasswd.zip

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D-7.  Where can I get IBM 3270 terminal for (PC)NFS?

Please see chart in section G-1 under TN3270.

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D-8.  Where can I get X-Windows for (PC)NFS?

The following X-windows products are available:

For DOS:
Product            Cost    Company            Version
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Xvision        $395    VisionWare Soft, Inc    X11R5
PC-Xware     $545    NCD, Inc.        X11R5
PC DECwindows    ??    DEC            X11R4
PC Xsight    ??    Locus Computing        X11R4
Micro X-Lite     $75    StarNet Comm. Corp.    X11R4
X Appeal     $350    Xtreme            X11R5
Xoftware    ??    AGE Logic        X11R4
PC X-Kit    $249    XLink            X11R5
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

For MS-Windows:
Product            Cost    Company            Version
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
HCL-eXceed    ??    Hummingbird Software    X11R5
eXcursion    ??    DEC            X11R5
MultiView/X    ??    JSB Corp.        X11R4
PC-Xview    $445    NCD Inc.        X11R5
Xoftware    ??    AGE Logic        X11R4
eXodus        $295    White Pine Software    X11R5
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

For Macintosh:
Product            Cost    Company            Version
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
MacX        ??    Apple Computer Corp.    X11R5
eXodus        $295    White Pines Software    X11R5
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

For OS/2:
Product            Cost    Company            Version
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
X Windows     $150    IBM            X11R5
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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D-10.  Where can I get a database that works with (PC)NFS?

Any database would be able to use the NFS mounted drive as long as it
recognizes it as a local drive. Most network versions of a database however
will not work unless they specifically say they support (PC)NFS & TCP/IP.
DBMS's known to work with (PC)NFS include SQL*Net (Oracle), and Sybase for
DOS.
PC-NFS is known to work with Paradox for Windows & DOS for network file
storage.

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D-11.  Where can I get a WAIS client for (PC)NFS?

WAIS Manager 3.0 by Kebin Gamiel (representing MCNC CNIDR and UNC-Chapel
Hill) has recently been announced which is WinSock compliant. Features
include multi-format handling capability, relevance feedback and a new
interface with Toolbar for quicker access.

You can get this via ftp from:
  sunsite.unc.edu: /pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps/waisman3.zip
  ftp.cnidr.org: /pub/NIDR.tools/wais/pc/windows/waisman3.zip

There is a WAIS client for PC/TCP at:
    calvin.sfasu.edu: /pub/dos/network/pc-tcp/wais.zip

WinWAIS is another winsock version of WAIS by EINET
is available from:
  ftp.einet.net:/einet/pc/*
  sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps

MacWAIS is a MacTCP compatible application for System 6 and 7 by EINET:
  ftp.einet.net:/einet/mac/*

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D-12.  Where can I get an archie client for (PC)NFS?

A ported version of c-archie is available for PC-NFS at the ftp sites:
    bcm.tmc.edu: /nfs/archie.exe
    ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils/archie.exe (has source as well)
This version works for PC-NFS v4.0a

There is a version for PC/TCP at:
    calvin.sfasu.edu:/pub/dos/network/ftp-pctcp/archie.zip

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D-13.  Where can I get a gopher client for (PC)NFS?

nfsgopher is available from bcm.tmc.edu in /nfs which will work with PC-NFS
gopher for MS-Windows is available for PC-NFS systems in an alpha release
from the ftp site:
    lister.cc.ic.ac.uk: pub/wingopher/{readme.txt,gopher.exe}
    ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils/gophersfx.exe

source available in ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils/gofer.zip

HGopher (Hampson's Gopher) is a client for gopher systems. The following
version has been tested at ANU:
    sorokin.anu.edu.au: /pub/nfs5-addons/hgopher.exe
It is originally distributed from:
    lister.cc.ic.ac.uk: /pub/wingopher

There is a gopher client for PC/TCP at the following site:
    calvin.sfasu.edu:/pub/dos/network/ftp-pctcp/goph1_05.exe

gophbook from UNC is an Asymetrix Toolbox application which uses winsock.dll
and is available from the ftp site:
  sunsite.unc.edu: /pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps/gophbook.zip

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D-14.  Where can I get a WWW (World Wide Web) client for (PC)NFS?

There is a version of such a client for PC-NFS at
    ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils/wwwpcnfs.zip

Winsock clients are now commonly available and should work with any PC
TCP/IP system which supports winsock. Some winsock clients are Cello and
NCSA Mosaic.

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D-15 Where can I get X25 for (PC)NFS ?

The Software Forge developed a PC/TCP-IP adapter for X25, which is a hardware/
software bundle that :

- conforms to PDS specification 1.09
- conforms to RFC 877/1356 (TCP-IP over X25)
- supports PC/TCP and PC-NFS (probably any PDS-compliant software)
- does address resolution of 100 Internet adresses (expandable)
- can have up to 20 simultaneous sessions

For more information, contact UniPalm ([phone]) or [e-mail]

The Software Group Ltd also makes X.25 software for PC systems. They can be
contacted at:
    2 Director Court, Suite 201
    Woodbridge, Ontario,
    Canada L4L 3Z5
    (418) 856-238
    [phone]

    or email [e-mail]

There is also an X.25 package available with Super-TCP from Frontier
Technologies [Z-16].

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D-16 Where can I get NEWGRP.EXE for PC-NFS ?

NEWGRP.EXE is a utility written by Geoff Arnold that does the equivalent of
the Unix newgrp command. See man newgrp if you are really interested. It can
be ftp-ed from some of the ftp sites found in C-2.

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D-17 Where can I get AUTOCONF for PC-NFS ?

AUTOCONF is a shareware utility designed and implementes by Henk Swaters that
allows system administrators to define an NIS map (pcnfs.config) that holds
the equivalent of DRIVES.BAT. The NIS map works on a user-basis and the mounting
and unmounting of existing resources is performed trough a single .EXE file.

AUTOCONF.ZIP is available on ftp.york.ac.uk in /pub/pc-nfs. You do need at least
PKUNZIP 2.04G to unzip it. What follows is the README.


AUTOCONF                                                           14-06-93
                        autoconf utility for pcnfs
                        ==========================

NAME
        autoconf.exe - configure PCNFS-client network drives and printers


DISCRIPTION
        This program is made to configure the network drives and printers
        of a PCNFS-client from the NIS database. The name of the NIS-map
        is pcnfs.config. Each line of the pcnfs.config file defines user
        or group information and has the format

                username/groupname list-of-drives/printdevices

        where list-of-drives/printdevices is either another username/
        groupname, or a network drive/printdevice:

                (drive:,hostname:/path,/option,option..)
                or
                (printdevice:,hostname:printername,/option,option..)

        example:
        ----------------------------------------------------------------
        all\
                (g:,calibra:/export/MSDOS/WinEnv)
        printer_staff\
                (lpt1:,pslw1:lw1,/fmt=raw)
        smith\
                all (f:,calibra:/export/MSDOS/DosEnv)\
                printer_staff
        ----------------------------------------------------------------

        When user smith executes autoconf.exe he mounts the following
        environment:

                g:      calibra:/export/MSDOS/WinEnv
                f:      calibra:/export/MSDOS/DosEnv
                lpt1:   pslw1:lw1       /fmt=raw

USAGE
        A known user has to be logged in, otherwise the program
        terminates. If the program is executed without any options
        the username is used as keyvalue. It is possible to give
        one or more keyvalues as argument of the program. These
        arguments can be either usernames or groupnames. By Default
    the program unmounts a drive before mounting a new drive on the
        same device. The argument /n or /nounmount switches this
        option off. The argument /h or /help prints out a help screen
        and terminates the program. There will be no mount or unmount
        command.

        example with the same auto.config as above:

                autoconf printer_staff /n
                or
                autoconf /nounmount printer_staff

        These equivalent commands try to mount:

                lpt1:   pslw1:lw1       /fmt=raw

        There will be no unmount command and if there is already
        a network device on lpt1: there are no changes made.


AUTHOR
        Henk Swaters Dept. of Computer Science University of Twente.
        [e-mail]

HISTORY
        autoconf.exe
        -------------
        14-06-1993      verion 1.0

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D-18. Where can I get a remote backup utility for (PC)NFS?

WATTCP has a backup utility called "rtar" with its applications
distribution.

The following commercial packages have similar facilities:
PC/TCP, Super-TCP, BW-TCP, Lanera TCPOpen, XLink PC-Link

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D-19.  Which (PC)NFS packages support DNS [named]?

Please see the chart Z-3.

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D-20.  Where can I get a traceroute program?

BW-TCP [Z-X] has a traceroute program with their package.

There is a traceroute program available for WATTCP at:
    polysla.calpoly.edu:/pub/mdurkin/trtb91b.zip

This is for an older version of WATTCP but is being converted to the new
version currently.

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D-21.  Where can I get an LPD program?

For commercial and some PD packages which have an LPD program please look at
the chart G-4.

There's a Winsock-compliant LPD called NLPD available via ftp from:
    sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps/wslpd.exe

A PC-NFS LPD version is in ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils

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Section E: Problems & General Q&A
=================================

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E-2.  Can I use DNS instead of NIS with PC-NFS?

No. PC-NFS currently only supports the Sun ONC NIS product. (Even NIS+ is
not fully compatible).

DNS is available with other packages.

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E-3.  Why do versions of (PC)NFS not follow symbolic links?

This is because according to the NFS definition, filenames are handled by
the NFS client. In some (PC)NFS if the files in the symbolic links may not
be in the same exported directory as the directory the link is in. NFS
mounted files appear as drives on the clients and the clients cannot parse
any files which appear higher up on the tree or on a different tree segment
than that of the NFS exported drive (from the server).

Certain versions can be clever enough to counter this problem by their own
methods but it is generally accepted that (PC)NFS systems do not support
symbolically linked files.

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E-4.  PC-NFS v4.0 has trouble with Cntl-S, Cntl-Q.

This has been fixed in release 4.0a and 5.0. For 4.0a please look at the ftp
sites [H-5]

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E-5.  PC-NFS v4.0 has trouble with redrawing windows.

This has been fixed in release 4.0a and 5.0. For 4.0a please look at the ftp
sites [H-5]

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E-6.   PC-NFS v4.0 doesn't allow me to access the local printer when I have
       network printers.

This is because the default setup for printers in PC-NFS v4.0 is as a
network printer. In the print manager choose the printer and change the
setup. At the bottom of the setup screen for the printer should be a
checkbox indicating that it is a network printer. Uncheck this box.

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E-7.  I cannot delete any file that PC-NFS makes with a ~ (tilde) in it.

To get rid of the problem, in your config.sys, run pcnfs.sys as:

C:\NFS\PCNFS.SYS /c^

where c reassign the immediately following character. [In this case to the
character '^']

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E-8.  PC-NFS says that it cannot open any more files even when the limit in
      autoexec.bat is set higher.

PC-NFS uses its open own file limit and not the DOS system open file limit. To
modify this limit use the /f flag as such in the config.sys:

C:\NFS\PCNFS.SYS /f50

The limit here is set to 50. The maximum is 64.

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E-9.  Can (PC)NFS mount file systems which are bigger than 2 GB?

Most server file systems do not handle such large file systems, but this is
possible with various software enhancements like Disk-Suite for Sun systems.

NFS clients on the other need not know how big the actual remote file system
is. It only receives information on how big the individual files are and not
the file system itself.

The Network Appliance server has one partition under which all drives can be
mounted for NFS exportation.

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E-10.  What is NFS/TCP? Will it work with my NFS product?

NFS/TCP is a different type of the original NFS protocol which uses the TCP
protocol as opposed to the originally specified UDP protocol. NFS over UDP
works well over a single LAN but is as not suitable for multiple LANs or
WANs as NFS/TCP. TCP's windowing of packets capability and reliability gives
it an advantage. In UDP dropped packets are not acknowledged between the two
hosts, however, TCP retransmits all dropped packets. One more aspect of TCP
(which is more idealistic than real) is the congestion control capacity
between routers for TCP which prevents overflooding of a congested network
link. In NFS/UDP it is easy to create UDP data which look like NFS requests
from other machines. However, TCP makes it much more difficult to add
falsified packets which impersonate another machines data.

The problem with NFS/TCP is that it is incompatible with NFS/UDP. Therefore
all servers running the TCP version will be invisible to clients running a
UDP version and vice versa.

NFS/TCP is available in PC/TCP and BWNFS.

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E-11.  What is PKTD.SYS? Where can I get it?

PKTD.SYS is a shim that allows PC-NFS to use packet drivers instead of its
native drivers. It is available from:
    bcm.tmc.edu
    src.doc.ic.ac.uk
    ftpserver.massey.ac.nz
    ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/pktd/pktd.zip

The current version is 5.0.

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E-12.  How can I run Netware 3.xx at the same time as (PC)NFS using NDIS?

You can run the NDIS-over-ODI shim available from Novell that will let you
run netware at the same time as any other product running NDIS (ie. many
(PC)NFS products.

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E-14.  Is it possible to modify the read & write buffer sizes in (PC)NFS?

Different (PC)NFS systems have different sizes with default at 1024 Kbytes
for both.  The standard maximum is 8 KB.

In PC-NFS, read buffer size is fixed (1024KB) but you can modify the write
size to any thing below this maximum. Currently anything less than 128 bytes
is cached into a 256 byte datagram. Anything more than this is passed as its
specific size.

PC/TCP, PathWay Client NFS & BWNFS allow modification of read & write buffer
sizes.

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E-15.  How can I install an Ethernet board not supported by (PC)NFS?

Contributed by Farid Rahmi:

If you're installing on an IBM PC or compatible, you can use NDIS drivers in
general for your Ethernet board.

Although I only upgraded to 5.0 after installing a beta version of 5.0
on my 3C509 PC, the procedure should still be the same :


1) Get the NDIS driver, the PROTOCOL.INI and the .NIF file from the LANMAN
   directory off the floppy that shipped with the 3C509 and copy these three
   files onto your harddisk (*NOT* in C:\LANMAN !!!, see below)

2) Select NDIS during installation.

3) This should wake up QUIKNDIS, which will transform PROTOCOL.INI for you
   and put it in C:\LANMAN together with the NDIS driver.

Three remarks :

- If you have an EISA machine and an ISA 3C509, please RTFM before complaining
  about lockups.

- I noticed that QUIKNDIS would scratch (make zero byte file) the NDIS driver
  if placed into C:\LANMAN. As mentioned, this was in the beta release.

- Too bad SunSelect couldn't ship the drivers with 5.0. Seen most of the other
  vendors ship these drivers and they are publicly available (ftp.3com.com)...


Farid ([e-mail])

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E-16.  In postscript files I sometimes get a ^D before the header from my
       programs. How do I get rid of it?

This happens mostly on PC systems sending output to postscript printers.
The ^D is the EOF character and sometimes causes a blank page to be output
by the printer before the print job. It can be disabled by the following:

In your WIN.INI file, add below [yourprintername, port] this line:

CTLD=0

If you wish to do this permenantly for all windows systems, you can
reprogram your printer with the following piece of Postscript code (Thanks
to Mark Fleming of Queen's Univ.). Send this as a file to your printer:

%!
%%Title: CTRL-D serial EOF (End-of-File) character fixed
%%Creator: R. Mark Fleming
%%+ Queen's University at Kingston
% Check if EOF is installed, if not install it
% assumes serverloop password is the default one
currentdict     % Get current dictionary
(\004) cvn known
{       % Check if CTRL-D defined in this dictionary
        (%% CTRL-D  procedure already installed\n %%) print
} {
        (%% CTRL-D procedure not installed!\n %%) print
        % Define IBMpc (serial) EOF character to do nothing
        serverdict  begin
        0 exitserver    % Make permanent changes
        (\004) cvn
        {} def  % To ignore ^D at the end of prologs.
  } ifelse
%%EOF

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Section F: Programming
======================

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F-1.  Is there a toolkit for (PC)NFS programming? Where can I get it?

Until recently, programming toolkits were developed independently by vendors
alongside their products. Due to the efforts of different persons and
organizations there is a formal definition of MS-Windows in the Windows
Sockets API. The current version is 1.1. This is only a standard and product
vendors are allowed to distribute their own programming toolkit. Most are
now developing or selling Windoes Sockets API compatible toolkits. Please
refer to the chart G-3 for products with Windows Sockets API.

Certain libaries for mounting drivers and user authentication with PC-NFS
5.0 are available on
    ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/dnet/DNET50.tar

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F-2.  What is Windows Sockets (winsock)? Where can I get it?

Windows Sockets is an API developed by a group of NFS vendors as a standard
for future network based communications in MS-Windows. The current version
of the API is 1.1. Further information for this is available on request.
Mail all questions and comments to "[e-mail]". To join the
mailing list, mail to "[e-mail]". Windows Sockets API
documentation and related documents are available by ftp to:
    microdyne.com: /pub/winsock
    sunsite.unc.edu        [Mirror site of the above address and much
                faster and up 24 hrs]

Peter Tatham (developer of the Trumpet newsreader) has developed an alpha
release of winsock.dll which uses a packet driver as the network driver. Its
currently available from ftp.utas.edu.au:/pb/trumpet. This winsock will be
used in the developement of WinTrumpet.

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F-3.  What is the latest version of the NFS protocol?

The current official version of the NFS protocol is version 3. It has just
recently come out and is being tested at this years Connectathon.

A Postscript file is available from:
    ftp.uu.net:/networking/ip/nfs/NFS3.spec.ps.Z
    bcm.tmc.edu:/nfs/nfsv3.ps.Z
    gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/standards/nfs/nfsv3.ps.Z

All comments and questions should be mailed to: [e-mail]

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F-4.  What is new in version 3 of the NFS protocol?

New features of version 3 are:
 - 64bit support
 - exclusive creates,
 - asynchronous writes (I guess its official now Vernon)
 - improved attribute caching
 - the "ACCESS" command works on the server attributes as well
 - relaxed transfer size restrictions.
 - reduced required "GETATTR" operations.

More information to come later.

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F-5.  What is the current RPC version? Where can I get it?

The current version of RPC is 4.0.  It is available at the ftp sites:
    bcm.tmc.edu
    src.doc.ic.ac.nz
    ftpserver.massey.ac.nz

There is a version 4.0 which works with WATTCP which is available from
    polyslo.calpoly.edu:/pub/mdurkin/rpc01a.zip

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F-6.  Where can I get the XDR/RPC definition for PCNFSD?

The .x file in the current source kit is available by FTP from:
       bcm.tmc.edu
       src.doc.ic.ac.uk
       ftpserver.massey.ac.nz
       sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/gen/spry-rpc.zip

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F-7.  What RFC's describe the NFS protocol? Where can I get these RFC's?

RFC's (Requests for Comments) are standards approved by the IETF (Internet
Engineering Task Force) which maintain order on protocols and information
technology affecting on the Internet. There are about 1500 or more Internet
RFC's and many more drafts & proposals.

There are three RFC's currently related to the NFS protocol:

RFC 1094 - NFS: Network File System Protocol Specification
RFC 1057 - RPC: Remote Procedire Call Specification Version 2
        [supercedes RFC 1050]
RFC 1014 - XDR: External Data Representation Standard

These RFC's are available by ftp from:
        NIC.DDN.MIL
    seagull.rtd.com: /pub/tcpip/papers

or by mail server from:
    [e-mail]
    with subject "HELP"
    or retrieve with "RFC index"

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F-8.  How can I tell if a program is NFS mounted?

Here's a message which discusses C code and methods of doing this:

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (-candee-+Scheer M.D.)
writes:
>By happy (?) coincidence, both NFS (at least implementations based closely
>on the Sun reference port) and RFS assume that (1) local file systems have
>major device numbers where the high bit is off, and (2) the client is
>therefore free to play in the namespace of devs with the high bit on.
>Clients of both types synthesize devs with the high bit on.  I'm aware of
>no environment that breaks assumption (1).

We're aware of several.  We've been down that route and abandoned it
several years ago.  While this is true of faithful SVRx (where I'm not
sure whether "x" includes any 4) ports with RFS, it breaks on many other
machines.  Including SunOS, which uses a major number that is determined
at driver configuration time to denote NFS mounted files.  If I recall
correctly, out-of-the-box, the magic major number is 20 on SunOS, but may
change on reconfig.  Other machines where I'm fairly sure that the highbit
kludge doesn't work are Pyramid DCOSX, AIX3.  It's been a while...

If I have to, I could confirm and expand the list by pawing thru
our SCCS history databases.  Please don't make me - it's scary in there ;-)

Furthermore, st_dev will not change between different NFS mounts.
Thus st_dev:st_ino cannot be unique.

If you're on a SVR3'ish port, there is a macro in sys/types.h (or param.h)
analogous to major() and minor().  I seem to recall it is called "bmajor()".
If you're on a system that has bmajor(), you can use it - I remember it
masking off the upper bit of a major number.  So you can say:

    if (major(x.st_dev) != bmajor(x.st_dev))
        file is remote

If it doesn't, you have to experiment and keep your fingers crossed.

I hate to say this, but there is no easy way to do this universally.
We ended up having to read the mount tables and match path prefixes.
Yuck.  #defines up the wazzoo.

I suggest you start reading about getmntent() and analogues, and parse
the file system type fields.  If performance isn't particularly critical,
it may be easier to popen /etc/mount and parse the output:

    f = popen("/etc/mount", "r");
    while(fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), f)) {
    ...
    }
    pclose(f);

If you use getmntent() (or /etc/mount kludge), and get a reasonable stat()
st_ino value for each file, you can use a "mount number":st_ino as a unique
key.  But you cannot guarantee that a single file has only one
key (multiple NFS mounts of a directory heirarchy).

You may also have to resolve symlinks depending on how your application
works.  This isn't a lot of fun either.

If you merely have to determine whether the occasional file is
remote or not, just "df <file>" it, and parse the output.
Grotty, effective, reasonably portable, and *usually* reliable.
But we know systems that can't even get this right...

[On HPUX, use "bdf" not "df" ;-)]
--
Chris Lewis; [e-mail]; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541
Psroff 3.0 info: [e-mail]
Ferret list: [e-mail]

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Section G: Product Features Comparisons
=======================================

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G-1.  Driver support comparison chart of different products.

  Additional codes:
    s = supported with a "shim" (perhaps some "y" should be "s", tell me)
    m = "must be used with" as opposed to "also works with"

                     Drivers Included          Interfaces Supported
                    -------------------    -----------------------------
           Stack             Token         Packet
ID        Provided  Ethernet  Ring FDDI    Drivers  NDIS  SLIP  PPP  ODI
--------- --------  -------- ----- ----    -------  ----  ----  ---  ---
AIR          y         y                              y               y
PC/TCP       y         y       y              y       s     y    y    s
Chameleon    y         y       y     y        s       y     y    n
Super-TCP    y         y       y     n        y       y     y    x    y
IBM/DOS      y         y       y              s       y     y    n    n
BW           y         y       y              y       y     y    n    y
Distinct     y         y       y     n        y       y     y    y    y
Pathway      y         y       y              y       y     y         y
PathWay.OS2  y         y       y              n       y               y
PC-NFS       y         y       y              s       y     y    n    y
LWPD         y         y       y              s       s     y    y    y
HP           y         y       y              y       y     n    n    s
NCSATel      n         n       n              m
CUTCP        n         n       n              m
QVT/Net      n         n       n              m
MSLanMan               y       y                      y
TTCP                   y       y              y       s     n    n    s
TCPOpen         y           y       y          y          y        y    n    y
WinNT        y         y       y              n       y     n    n
Piper/IP     y         y       y                      y     y         y
ICE-TCP      y         y                      y

Notes:
  Many packages include drivers for many different network adapters,
  and/or can use interfaces to existing drivers.  Packet driver
  compatibility implies NDIS and ODI compatibility through the use of
  dis_pkt and odipkt.

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G-2.  Protocol support comparison chart of different products.


  It is presumed that a TCP/IP package supports TCP, IP, UDP, ICMP, and
  ARP, so these are not listed.

ID          BootP Client  RARP    DNS    NetBIOS (2)
---------   ------------  ----  -------  -------
AIR         n        n      y        y
PC/TCP           y                 y        y
Chameleon        y                 y        n
Super-TCP        y          y      y        y
IBM/DOS          y                 y        y
BW               y          y      y        y
Distinct
Pathway          y                 y        y
PathWay.OS/2     y                 y        y
PC-NFS           y(3)       y      n        y
LWPD             y          y      y        y
HP               n                 y        y
NCSATel          n                 y
CUTCP            y          n      y
QVT/Net          y                 y
TTCP             n(1)       y      y        n(1)
TCPOpen         y        y       y        y
WinNT            n          n      y        y
Piper/IP                           y        y
ICE-TCP          ?

  Notes: (1) Version 2.0 will have bootp support.
         (2) RFC 1001/1002 NetBIOS over TCP/IP, not level 3 coexistance
             with NetBIOS over NetBUI.
     (3) PD Bootp workaround by Thomas Dwyer III available from:
        ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/utils/bootp.exe

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G-3.  MS-Windows applications and support chart of different products.

  Columns:
     All Apps  -- all applications are Windows based
     Some Apps -- some are Windows, some are DOS or character
     All DLL   -- stack is implemented as "100% Windows DLL" code
     WinSock   -- supports Windows Socket API (1.1)
     VxDev     -- includes a virtual device drive to support DOS apps
                     running under Windows

ID          All Apps  Some Apps  All DLL    WinSock   VxDev
---------   --------  ---------  --------   -------   -----
AIR           n           y         y         y
PC/TCP         n           y         n         y        y
Chameleon      y           n         y         y
Super-TCP      y          (1)        y(1)      y        y
IBM/DOS        n           y         n(2)      y
BW             n           y         n         n(3)
Distinct       y           n         y         y
Pathway        y                   n(3)
PathWayOS/2    y           n         n
PC-NFS         n           y         n         y
LWPD           n           y         n         n(3)
HP             n           n         n         n
NCSATel        n           n         n         n
CUTCP          n           n         n         n
QVT/Net        y           n         n         n
TTCP           n           y         n         n(3)
TCPOpen           n       y         n           y
Piper/IP                             n         y
WinNT          n(4)        n(4)      n(4)      y

 Notes:
  (1) Super-TCP/NFS includes DOS based applications and an optional TSR.
  (2) The stack is protected mode code that sits entirely in extended
      memory except for a small interface TSR.
  (3) Winsock is coming RSN, as an update or in the next version.
  (4) Windows NT doesn't run on top of DOS, and TCP/IP is part of the
      system.  Some of the applications are graphical, many utitities
      character-based.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

  Additional codes:
     d = DOS or character-based application
     w = Windows based application

                              FTP                      NNTP  SNMP   NFS
ID        Telnet TN3270  client server  SMTP POP (3)  Client Agent Client
--------- ------ ------  ------ ------  ---- -------  ------ ----- ------
AIR       d w    d w     d w     w      w    w3                    d w
PC/TCP     d w     d      d w     d      d   d2 d3       d     y    d w
Chameleon   w      w       w      w      w   w2          n     y      x
Super-TCP   w      w       w      w      w   w2 w3       w     w    dx wx
IBM/DOS    d w    d w     d w     d     d w  d2          n     y      x
BW         d w    d w     d w    d w     w   w2 w3       n     y      x
Distinct    w      n       w      w
Pathway    d w    d w     d w     d                            d     d w
PathWayOS2  y      y       y                                   y      y
PC-NFS     d w     x      d w     d     d w  d23w23      n     y     d w
LWPD       d w    d wx    d w    d w     n     n         n     y      x
HP          d              d
NCSATel    d w    (5)     d w     w      n     n         n     n      n
CUTCP       d      d       d      d      n     n         n     n      n
QVT/Net     w      n       w      w      n     w         w     n      n
TTCP v2.0   (1)           d w
TCPOpen        w      w      d w     w      w     w3        n     n     d w
WinNT       w      n      d(4)   (6)     n     n         n     y
Piper       y      y       y      y                      y     y      y

 Notes: (1) terminal emulation products sold separately
        (3) POP (Post Office Protocol): 2 = version 2, 3 = version 3,
             and implies an SMTP client to send mail
        (4) "d" here means "character based"
        (5) get TN3270 (CUTCP) package from Clarkson University
        (6) server for NT will be in production version

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G-4.  Utilities available with different products.

                                          setclock
ID         ping lpr lpd finger talk whois (rdate)  rcp rsh rexec stats
---------  ---- --- --- ------ ---- ----- -------- --- --- ----- -----
AIR         y            y                  y      y   y    y
PC/TCP       y   y   x    y      n    y      y      y   y    y     y
Chameleon    y   x   n    y      n    y      n      n   n    n     y
Super-TCP    y   x   x    y      y    n      n      y   y    y     y
IBM/DOS      y   y   y    y      n    n      y      y   y    y     y
BW           y   y   y    y      y    y      y      y   y    n     y
Distinct     y                                                     y
Pathway      y   y        y      n    n      n      y   y    n     n
PathWayOS/2  y   y                                                 y
PC-NFS       y  (3)       y      n    y      y      y   y    n     y
LWPD         y   y   n    y      y    n      n      y   y    y     y
HP           y   n   n    n      n    n      n      y   y    n     n
NCSATel     (1)  y   n    y      n    n      y      n   y    y     n
CUTCP        n   y   n    n      n    n      n     (2)  n    n     n
QVT/Net      n   y   n    n      n    n      n     (2)  n    n     n
TTCP         y   y   y    y                                        y
TCPOpen      y   y   y    y           y      y      y   y    y     n
WinNT        y   y   n    y      n    n      n      y   y    y     y
Piper        y   y   y    y      n    y      y      y   y    y     y

 Notes: (1) although NCSA Telnet does not come packaged with many
            utilities, many are available on various FTP servers.
       (2) has an RCP server, but not a client.
       (3) printing suported via pcnfsd (in common with most other
           products)

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G-5.  Telnet features of different products.

             Terminal Emulation           Builtin      3270 options (1)
          -----------------------  INT14  FTPserv  ----------------------
ID        VT100 VT220 3270 tk4010  Redir    (4)    models X-streams graph
--------- ----- ----- ---- ------  -----  -------  ------ --------- -----
AIR        y     y     y                    y
PC/TCP      y     y     y     n      y       y        y       y       n
Chameleon   y     y     y     n              n        y       n(3)    n
Super-TCP   y     y     y     n      y      n(2)      n       n       n
IBM/DOS     y     y     y     n             n(2)      y       y       n
BW          y     y     y            y      n(2)      y       n       n
Distinct
Pathway     y     y     y            y
PathWayOS2  y     y     y     y                       y       y       y
PC-NFS     d w   d w    x           (5)      n
LWPD        y     y     x            y       y        y       y       n
HP
NCSATel     y     n     n     n      n
CUTCP       y     n     y     y      n       y        n       n       n
QVT/Net     y     y     n     n      n       n
TTCP
TCPOpen     y     y     y     n              y        y
WinNT       y           n     n              n        n       n       n
Piper       y           y     n      y

 Notes:
  (1) models -- can emulate different 3270 models
      X-streams -- supports extended data streams
      graph -- supports 3270 graphics (either vector or symbol sets)
  (2) A separate FTP server runs in the background (without Windows).
  (3) A patch is available for extended data streams, but it did not
      work for me (cjs).
  (4) Built-in FTP server doesn't have much utility for Windows based
      telnet since an FTP server can be running the same time as Telnet.
  (5) Will be available shortly (as unsupported add-on)

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G-6.  Support for other network protocols on the same wire

       Novell  Banyan      MS-LAN                    Windows 4
Product       Netware VINES  X.25 Manager Appletalk DECnet Workgroups Lantastic
-------    ------- ------ ---- ------- --------- ------ ---------- ---------
AIR          y            n               n       n
PC/TCP        y      y     y      y        n       n         y
Chameleon                  y
Super-TCP     y      y     y      y        n       y         y        y
IBM/DOS                                    n
BW            y                            n                 y
Distinct      y
Pathway       y      y            y        y(o)    y(o)
PathWay.OS/2  y      y            y        n       n
PC-NFS        y      n     y(t)   y        n       n         y        y
NFS/Share     n      n     n      n        y       y         n        n
LWPD          y            y(t)            n
HP                                         n
NCSATel       n      n     n      n        y(o)    n         n        n
CUTCP         n      n     n      n        y(o)    n         n        n
QVT/Net       y(s)         n                                 y(s)
TTCP
TCPOpen       y      y            y                          y        y
WinNT         y                   y        n       n         y
Piper/IP      y      y            y        n

  (o) option
  (t) third party software
  (s) Use a shim

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G-7.  Features of X servers.

       X11                           Window            Dev.
Product     Release  Fonts  XDMCP  ICCCM   Video  Manager  XRemote  Kit  Winsock
-------  -------  -----  -----  -----  ------- -------  -------  ---  -------
eXceed      5              y      y     xevs8t    m        y      y      y
eXcursion   5      s              y               w
eXodus        5              y      y     vsx      mod       y             n
X-Lite      4                            vs      mod       n      n      n
X-WIN        5           y            vhs      mod       n      n      y
Multiview   4      b       y                      w        n      n      n
Xware       5     stb      y      y    cevs8txo  mow       y      y      y
Xview       4              y      y    mcevs8tx   mo       y      y
XLink       5     sdp                    vso8                     y      n
DECWin      4     sa       n      y      ev8o              n      n      n
Xsight      4                            evh      w        n             y
Xappeal     5                     y      vs       od       n      n      n
Xoftware    5      s       y      y      evs8    mow       n      y      y
Xvision     5     satb     y      y              od        y      y      y
IBM X-OS/2  5              y      y     evs8xo    p        n      y      y
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Key:
Fonts: s - SNF, a - adobe, t - TrueType, b - BDF, p - PCF, d - SPD

Video: e - EGA, v - VGA, s - SVGA, m - mono, 8 - 8514, t - TIGA, x - XGA
       c - CGA, h - Hercules, o - others (MCGA, DIGA, Japanese, etc)

Window Manager: m - Motif, o - OpenLook, d - DECWindows, w - MS-Windows,
        p - Presentation Manager

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Section H: Information Sources
==============================

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H-1.  CHEST - Council for Higher Education Software Transfers

Chest is run in the United Kingdom for all higher educational bodies for the
provision of educational software pricing. The run an information service
called NISS [telnet niss.ac.uk] which is full of useful information on
software deals. Their current director is Mike Johnson. Each educational
site has a local representative. Users wanting to deal should contact their
local representative. The address for the CHEST & NISS Centre is given below:

    CHEST & NISS Centre,
    University of Bath,
    Bath BA2 7AY,
    UK

    [phone]

There is a discussion list associated with the CHEST product deal at
[e-mail] and [e-mail]. They have
associated archives full of information. To join the list you send a message
to [e-mail] with the message body containing
"subscribe chest-pcnfs (real name)"

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H-2.  X/Open.

The X/Open Company is an international group of vendors which acts as a
standards body for API system compatibility of different platforms. They
create the X/Open Portability Guide (XPG) which includes a description for
portability of a Unix system. The following are the addresses, phone and FAX
numbers for the X/Open Company:

X/Open Company Ltd.                  X/Open Company Ltd.
Apex Plaza, Forbury Rd.,             Karufuru-Kanda Bldg., 9F
Reading, Berkshire RG1 1AX           1-2-1 Kanda Suda-Cho
United KIngdom                       Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo 101, Japan
Phone: [phone]                Phone: [phone]
FAX:   [phone]                FAX:   [phone]

X/Open Company Ltd.                  X/Open Company Ltd.
1750 Montgomery Street,              1055 Washington Blvd., 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111              Stamford, CT 06901
USA                                  USA
Phone: [phone]              Phone: [phone]
FAX:   [phone]              FAX:   [phone]

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H-3. Books.

Bloomer, John
"Power Programming with RPC"
O'Reilly & Assoc, 1992
ISBN 0-937175-77-3
US$29.95
---
This covers the details of distributed application developement using RPCs.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Comer, Douglas E.
"Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume I: Principles, Protocols and
Architecture"
Second edition, Prentice Hall, 1991.
ISBN 0-13-468505-9
---
One of the best referrences on TCP/IP with good examples
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Comer, Douglas E., Stevens, David L.,
"Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume II: Design, Implementation and
Internals"
Prentice Hall, 1991.
ISBN 0-13-472242-6
---
Followup to Comer's very successful Vol 1. Descriptions on specific
applications and services
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Comer, Douglas E., Stevens, David L.,
"Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume III: Client-Server Programming
and Applications" (BSD Socket Version)
Prentice Hall, 1993
ISBN 0-13-474222-2
---
Book 3 has a good description on network programming via RPC & TCP/IP
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Corbin, John,
"The Art of Distributed Programming-Programming Techniques for Remote
Procedure Calls"
Springer-Verlag, New York, New York. 1991.
ISBN ??
---
Basic description of RPC and XDR and how to program distributed applications
using them.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Engst, Adam
"The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh"
Hayden Books, Indianapolis, 1993
ISBN 1-56830-064-6
US$29.95
Canada $37.95
---
Adam has outdone himself in this whimsical starter book for Macintosh users
wanting to know about the Internet and how to connect to it. A must read
book if you're a novice.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hunt, Craig
"TCP/IP Network Administration"
O'Reilly & Assoc., 1992
ISBN 0-13-015389-3
---
Another in O'Reilly's System administration series. Good practical
referrence for sysadmins.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Kehoe, Brian
"Zen and the Art of the Internet"
Prentice-Hall, 1992
ISBN 0-13-010778-6
---
A comprehensive Internet book for beginners. It can be ftp'd from
world.std.com:/obi/Internet/zen-1.0 as well
It is available in Microsoft Rich Text Format (as in the Help format) from:
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc-nfs/doc/zen10.hlp

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Krol, Ed
"The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog"
O'Reilly & Assoc, 1992
ISBN 1-56592-025-2
---
A good introduction to the Internet covering the basics such as email and
news and expands into new developments as well.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

LaQuery, Tracy, Ryer, Jeanne C.
"The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking"
Addison-Wesley, 1993
ISBN 0-201-62224-6
---
Another introductory book for novices on Internet services. The book informs
users on how to find information.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Malamud, Carl
"Analyzing Sun Networks."
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.
ISBN ??
---
Mr. Malamud is a very well known author on networking standards and this
book gives a good description of Sun's ONC.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Miller, Mark A.
"Troubleshooting TCP/IP"
ISBN ??
--
Teaches how to analyze TCP/IP problems and discusses platforms and case
studies.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Rose, Marshall T.
"The Simple Book: An Introduction to Management of TCP/IP-based Internets"
Prentice Hall
ISBN ??
--
The first of Mr Roses books on Network management. A new edition is coming
out soon, I think.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Rose, Marshall T.
"The Internet Message: Closing the Book on Electronic Mail"
Prentice Hall
ISBN 0-13-092041-7
--
A good book on Internet mail systems by a very enjoyable author. Great for
developers not users.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Santifaller, Michael
"TCP/IP and NFS."
Addison Wesley, 1991.
ISBN ??
---
No info. opinions welcome.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Stern, Hal
"Managing NFS and NIS."
O'Reilly & Associates, 1991.
ISBN 0-937175-75-7
---
Very handy troubleshooting book on NFS & NIS problems
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Stevens, W. Richard,
"Unix Network Programming"
Prentice Hall, 1990.
ISBN 0-13-949876-1
---
A good book on the details of Unix network systems with good exercises. Mr
Stevens is a very well known author on Unix systems. The source code and
errata list are available from ftp.uu.net:/published/books
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Stephen Roge
"Unix System V Network Programming"
Addison-Wesley, 1993
[Brand new book (July 93), I have not read it yet. Any opinions welcome]

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H-4.  Related papers (published)

Glover, Fred,
"TNFS Protocol Specification,"
Trusted System Interest Group, INTERNET-DRAFT, May 24, 1992.
--
Proposed draft standard for security extensions to NFS.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Israel, Robert K., Sandra Jett, James Pownell, George M. Ericson,
"Eliminating Data Copies in UNIX-based NFS Servers,"
Uniforum Conference Proceedings, San Francisco, CA, February 27 - March 2,1989.
--
Describes two methods for reducing data copies in NFS server code.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Jacobson, V.,
"Congestion Control and Avoidance,"
Proc. ACM SIGCOMM `88, Stanford, CA, August 1988.
--
The paper describing improvements to TCP to allow use over Wide Area
Networks and through gateways connecting networks of varying capacity. This
work was a starting point for the NFS Dynamic Retransmission work.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Juszczak, Chet,
"Improving the Performance and Correctness of an NFS Server,"
USENIX Conference Proceedings, USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, June 1990,
pages 53-63.
--
Describes reply cache implementation which avoids work in the server by
handling duplicate requests. More important, though listed as a side-effect,
the reply cache aids in the avoidance of destructive non-idempotent
operation re-application-improving correctness.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Kazar, Michael Leon,
"Synchronization and Caching Issues in the Andrew File System,"
USENIX Conference Proceedings, USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, Dallas
Winter 1988, pages 27-36.
--
A description of the cache consistency scheme in AFS. Contrasted with other
distributed file systems.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Macklem, Rick,
"Lessons Learned Tuning the 4.3BSD Reno Implementation of the NFS Protocol,"
Winter USENIX Conference Proceedings, USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA,
January 1991.
--
Describes performance work in tuning the 4.3BSD Reno NFS implementation.
Describes performance improvement (reduced CPU loading) through elimination
of data copies.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Mogul, Jeffrey C.,
"A Recovery Protocol for Spritely NFS,"
USENIX File System Workshop Proceedings, Ann Arbor, MI, USENIX Association,
Berkeley, CA, May 1992.
--
Second paper on Spritely NFS proposes a lease-based scheme for recovering
state of consistency protocol.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Nowicki, Bill,
"Transport Issues in the Network File System,"
ACM SIGCOMM newsletter Computer Communication Review, April 1989.
--
A brief description of the basis for the dynamic retransmission work.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Pawlowski, Brian, Ron Hixon, Mark Stein, Joseph Tumminaro,
"Network Computing in the UNIX and IBM Mainframe Environment,"
Uniforum `89 Conf. Proc., (1989)
--
Description of an NFS server implementation for IBM's MVS operating system.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[RFC1014]    Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
"External Data Representation Specification,"
RFC-1014, DDN Network Information Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.
--
Proposed standard for canonical format for data exchange, used with RPC.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[RFC1057]    Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
"Remote Procedure Call Specification,"
RFC-1057, DDN Network Information Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.
--
Remote procedure protocol specification.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[RFC1094]    Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
"Network Filesystem Specification,"
RFC-1094, DDN Network Information Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.
--
NFS version 2 protocol specification.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Sandberg, R., D. Goldberg, S. Kleiman, D. Walsh, B. Lyon,
"Design and Implementation of the Sun Network Filesystem,"
USENIX Conference Proceedings, USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, Summer 1985.
--
The basic paper describing the SunOS implementation of the NFS version 2
protocol, and discusses the goals, protocol specification and trade-offs.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Srinivasan, V., Mogul, Jeffrey C.
"Spritely NFS: Implementation and Performance of Cache Consistency Protocols",
WRL Research Report 89/5, Digital Equipment Corporation Western Research
Laboratory, 100 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA, 94301, May 1989.
--
This paper analyzes the effect of applying a Sprite-like consistency
protocol applied to standard NFS. The issues of recovery in a stateful
environment are covered in [Mogul].

Electronically available: ftp gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/DEC/WRL/WRL-TR-89.5.ps.Z
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Mogul, Jeffrey C.
"A Recovery Protocol for Spritely NFS",
WRL Technical Note 27, Digital Equipment Corporation Western Research
Laboratory, 100 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA, 94301, April 1993.
--
No abstract.

Electronically available: ftp gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/DEC/WRL/WRL-TN-27.ps.Z
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

X/Open Company, Ltd.,
"X/Open CAE Specification: Protocols for X/Open Internetworking: XNFS",
X/Open Company, Ltd., Apex Plaza, Forbury Road, Reading Berkshire, RG1 1AX,
United Kingdom, 1991.
--
This is an indispensable reference for NFS version 2 protocol and
accompanying protocols, including the Lock Manager and the Portmapper.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

X/Open Company, Ltd.,
"X/Open CAE Specification: Protocols for X/Open Internetworking: (PC)NFS
Developer's Specification",
X/Open Company, Ltd., Apex Plaza, Forbury Road,
Reading Berkshire, RG1 1AX, United Kingdom, 1991.
--
This is an indispensable reference for the PC implementation of the NFS
version 2 protocol.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hall M., Towfiq M., Arnold G., Treadwell D., Sanders H.
"Windows Sockets: An Open Interface for Network Programming under Microsoft
 Windows, version 1.1"
1992.
--
This is the specification of the Windows Sockets API which is the current
standard for Windows PC network socket calls. A must read for current
developers.

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H-5.  FTP Sites

The official FTP sites for comp.protocols.nfs are:
    bcm.tmc.edu:        /nfs
    ftpserver.massey.ac.nz
    src.doc.ic.ac.uk

FAQ draft current location:
    seagull.rtd.com:    /pub/tcpip/FAQ.pcnfs.v1.5.Z or pcnfsfaq.zip

Other FTP sites:
    calvin.sfasi.edu:    /pub/dos/network/ftp-pctcp
    dorm.rutgers.edu:     /pub/msdos/bws
    ftp.bws.com:         /pub/bw
    ftp.cica.indiana.edu
    ftp.cnidr.org:         /pub/NIDR.tools/wais/pc/windows
    ftp.com
    ftp.netmanage.com
    ftp.novell.com:
    ftp.york.ac.uk:        /pub
    grape.ecs.clarkson.edu
    lister.cc.ic.ac.uk
    microdyne.com:         /pub/winsock
[RFCs]    nic.ddn.mil:
    seagull.rtd.com:     /pub/tcpip
    sgi.sgi.com
[ODI]    sjf-lwp.novell.com:
    sorokin.anu.edu.au:     /pub/nfs5-addons
    sunsite.unc.edu:     /pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock
    vax.ftp.com

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H-6.  Related FAQs, USENET lists, email lists etc.

You can find FAQs, FAQlets, and other lists on USENET related to the topic
of PC's and TCP/IP Networks in general at the following sources:

A. Comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc FAQlet by Bernard Abouba
   This covers details of running the IP protocols and intermixing different
   packages on IBM PC & compatible systems. It is posted bi-weekly on the
   corresponding USENET group. You can also FTP a copy from the following
   site:
    netcom1.netcom.com: /pub/mailcom/IBMTCP

B. "Features of TCP/IP Packages for DOS and Windows" (Version 0.5 5/13/93)
   by C.J.Sacksteder
   This is another comparison of TCP/IP packages for DOS and MS-Windows PC
   systems. It is posted to comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc.

C. Packet Drivers FAQ by Russell Nelson
   This covers questions concerning the installation, maintainence and
   compatibility of the Packet Drivers suite available as freeware on the
   Internet. It is posted to comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc.

D. Windows Sockets API FAQ
   This covers questions on the Windows Sockets API standard. There is also
   a USENET newsgroup for this: alt.winsock. The FAQ is available on the
   newsgroup and also from the official site for the standard:
    microdyne.com: /pub/winsock/FAQ/FAQ

E. Windows Sockets API mailing list
   This mailing list can be joined by email request to:
    [e-mail]

F. Sun RPC on Windows
   This mailing list discusses Sun's Open Network Computing RPC's running on
   Windows. You can subscribe by mailing to:
    [e-mail]

G. NFS version 3 mailing list
   The mailing list for the new NFS specification can be joined my emailing:
    [e-mail]

H. The UK CHEST program mailing list
   This mailing list contains information on (PC)NFS distributed by CHEST
   [Z-1]. Email to:
    [e-mail]
     with a header "subscribe chest-pcnfs (real name here)"

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H-7.  Glossary

These are brief descriptions of the terms used in PC & TCP/IP networking.

ANSI    American National Standards Institute. A standards making body of
    the US Federal system.

API    Application Programming Interface.

AppleTalk A proprietory network protocol developed by Apple Computers, Inc.
    and available on Macintosh systems.

ARP    Address Resolution Protocol. Nodes use these to determine the
    hardware address of a given IP address if directly available.
    Described in RFC 826.

BOOTP   Bootstrap Protocol. This allows a client to determine its IP address
    given its hardware address (to some BOOTP server). Described in RFC
    1084.

client    A program which is used to communicate with another which provides
    special services (eg. an NFS client communicates with an NFS server
    to mount remote file systems locallly.)

DECNET    A proprietory networking system developed by Digital Equipment Corp.

DLL    Dynamically Linked Library. This is a set of shared functions and
    procedures used by applications that can be loaded or unloaded at
    any time by the applications. Many TCP/IP packages now come as DLLs.

DNS    Domain Naming System/Server. This is a system of Internet hosts
    which provide IP name to IP address resolution. Described in RFCs
    1034 and 1035.

Email    Electronic Mail. This is a method of communication electronically
    using different methods of delivery. On the Internet the email
    protocol most commonly used (and the standard) is SMTP.

Ethernet This is a physical and data link layer system connecting hosts in
    a bus-topology network. It is described by IEEE 802.3 and the DIX
    (Digital, Intel, Xerox) Ethernet II specifications. Both are
    compatible on the same physical wire but differ slightly in utility.

FDDI    Fibre Distributed Data Interface. This is a physical layer and data
    link layer standard for a fibre optic ring-topology network as
    approved by ANSI.

finger    A remote check utility to see users and hosts.

FTP    File Transfer Protocol. This is an application to transfer files
    from one IP host to another. The client initiates a connection to
    the server and sends commands to it to indicate which files and the
    method of transfer.

gopher    An client-server networked information service.

Host    A general referrence to a computer system on a network.

hostname On IP networks, this refers to the English (sort of) name given to
    the machine. Can be the same as IP name.

ICMP    Internet Control Message Protocol. This is a diagnostic protocol for
    IP data delivery used by various programs such as Ping. Described by
    RFC 792.

Internet The Internet is a very large system of networks spanning the globe.
    The word "internet" (with small 'i') is also used to describe a WAN.

IP    Internet Protocol. The transport layer which describes a packet
    format for data to pass on a TCP/IP network and on the Internet.
    Described in RFC 791.

IP name The Englishlike name given to an IP host.

IP address The "dotted-decimal" format identifier for each IP host. Eg.
    192.0.0.2

IPX    Internet Packet Exchange. Novell's Netware packet delivery system
    similar in concept to IP.

ISDN    Integrated Services Digital Network. A hardware description for
    direct links between two areas by way of special telephony.

LAN Manager A proprietory networking system developed by Microsoft.

LocalTalk Apple Computer's proprietory cabling scheme for connecting Macintosh
    systems together. The Appletalk software protocols run over LocalTalk.

login    To connect to a host.

logout    To disconnect from a host.

LPD    Line Printer Daemon. This is a print server for requests by LPR from
    other hosts on the network. Described in RFC 1179.

LPR    Line Printer. This was originally a Unix system command which has
    expanded to include network printing as well on hosts with the LPD

MHS    Mail Handling System. A email distribution protocol similar to SMTP.

MIME    Mail Interface Multimedia Extensions. This is a newer email protocol
    which actually resides above the delivery protocol and describes the
    content format of the email message. It provides extensions for
    multimedia email. Described by RFC 1341, 1344, 1426, 1428, 1437,

Netware    A protprietory networking system developed by Novell, Inc.

NDIS    Network Driver Interface Specification. This is an data-link layer
    interface for different systems using a network device. Described by
    the NDIS papers by Microsoft and 3Com.

NFS    Network File System. Please see (A-X).

NIC    Network Information Center of the Internet: internic.net

NIS    Network Information System. This is Sun Microsystems version of
    coordination of network information like hostnames and account
    information. Partially similar to DNS.

NNTP    Network News Transfer Protocol. This is the distribution method
    protocol for USENET newsservice between servers and newsreaders
    (clients). Described in RFC 977 & 1036.

ODI    Open Data-Link Interface. Novell's data-link layer interface similar
    to NDIS for systems using the network interface.

OSI    Open Systems Interconnect. An alternative to the IP suite of
    protocols developed by the International Standards Organization
    (ISO). ISO has its own set of protocols available in the Blue Book.

Packet Drivers  These are series of software for the data-link layer
    interface, similar to NDIS and ODI but on a lower level for
    programmability. Described by the Packet Driver Specification by
    John Romkey of ftp Software, Inc. (see B-3)

PCNFSD    The daemon utility for authorization of PC-NFS systems. Version 2 is
    the current common usage version.

Ping    This is a utility for checking reachability between Internet hosts.

POP    Post Office Protocol. This is a protocol for server-based e-mail
    packages. Described by POP2 & POP3 descriptions: RFC 918, 937, 1081,
    1082, 1225

PPP    Point-to-point Protocol. A data link layer for connecting two hosts
    directly by serial, modem, or wide-area links. It can carry IP and
    other protocols. Described (for IP) by RFC 1331-1333.

RARP    Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. This is used by hosts to map a
    given hardware address to an IP address. Described by RFC826

RCP    Remote Copy. This utility allows a user to copy files from one host
    to another on a TCP/IP network.

REXEC    Remote Execute. This utility allows a user to execute commands on a
    remote host from a local host over a TCP/IP network.

RFC    Request For Comments. The set of standards and protocol definitions
    now approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force which describes
    the Internet and all its protocols.

.rhosts    This is a file which contains permissions for different accounts
    and hosts to access that user account. Used by RCP, REXEC, RLOGIN
    and RSH.

RLOGIN    Remote Login. This is a application program to connect to remote IP
    hosts similar to the Telnet program. Described by RFC 1258, 1282

RSH    Remote Shell. This allows a user to open a shell on a remote system
    over a TCP/IP network.

SLIP    Serial-Line Internet Protocol. This is a data-link layer describing
    Internet connectivity via a serial line or modem between two hosts.
    It is similar to PPP. Described in RFC 1055.

SMTP    Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The common protocol used in TCP/IP
    networks and the Internet for email delivery. Described by RFC 821.

SNMP    Simple Network Management Protocol. The first version of the network
    management protocol which allows monitoring hosts from remote.
    Described by RFC 1067, 1098, 1157

SNMPv2  SNMP Version 2. This is the latest version of the SNMP protocol
    which is compatible with the original version but includes many
    extensions such as security. Described by RFC 1444, 1446, 1447,
    1448, 1450

tar    A Unix backup utility both local and remote.

TCP    Transmission Control Protocl. This is a connection oriented protocol
    which provides reliable communication between two IP hosts.
    Described by RFC 793.

Telnet    This is a remote connectivity application between IP hosts.
    Described by RFC 764, 854.

Token-Ring This is a physical and data-link layer description for a
    ring-based topology network.

topology  A somewhat visual description of a network wire system.

TSR    Terminate and Stay Ready. This is a DOS based program which stays in
    memory after it is started and allows the user to continue using
    other DOS programs.

UDP    User Datagram Protocol. This is a connectionless communication
    protocol providing non-reliable data delivery between IP hosts.
    Described by RFC 768

USENET    The news system on the Internet providing information by users of
    the network.

UUCP    Unix to Unix Copy Program. This is a protocol for network
    connectivity by non-interactive distribution of files.

VTxxx   A series of terminal types developed by Digital Equipment Corp.
    which has become a de facto standard.

VxD     Virtual Device Driver. This is a driver specification which allows
    DOS applications to access network services in MS-Windows.

WAIS    Wide Area Information Services. Another networked information
    service. This one uses the Z39.50 document format for storage.

WINSOCK Windows Sockets API. Please see (F-2).

WWW    World Wide Web. Yet another networked information service.

X.25    A network layer protocol developed by ISO and part of the OSI suite.

Xserver A program which allows the user to display X windows applications.

Xwindows A networked windowing system commonly found on many workstations
    and Unix systems

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Section Y: Third Party & Related Software
=========================================

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Y-1.  eNFS: INTERSTREAM

Company       :    INTERSTREAM, Inc.

Contact          :

Phone         :    [phone]
        [phone]

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : INTERSTREAM, Inc.
        1501 Reedsale St.
        Pittsburgh,
        PA 15233-2329
        USA

Product          : eNFS

Current Version: ??

Pricing          : $995 [desktop]
        $1995 [server]

Support          : ??

Systems          : SPARCstation 1, 2, SPARCserver 490,690

Services      : server: optimized server board for NFS

Size          : -

Features      : -

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Y-2.  Multinet: TGV, Inc

Company       :    TGV, Inc.

Contact          : [e-mail] or as call and ask for a salesperson.

Phone         :    (800) TGV-3440
        [phone]

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    [e-mail]    [general questions]
        [e-mail]    [sales questions]
        [e-mail] [technical questions]

Postal mail   : 603 Mission St
        Santa Cruz,
        CA 95060
        USA

Product          : Multinet, NFS Server, NFS Client, MultiWare NetWare server
        for VMS

Current Version: 3.2

Pricing          : call for quotation

Support          : support contract available, Call.

Systems          : Any VAX/VMS system V5.0 and later.
                Any OpenVMS AXP system V1.0 and later.

Services      : [call for customization]

Size          : [depends on configuration]

Features      : (NFS Server option supports pcnfsd v2)
        Very complete ONC implementation.


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Y-6.  SOSS: Rich Braun

Company       :    --

Contact          : Richard Braun [[e-mail]]

Phone         :    --

FAX          : --

Email         :    [e-mail]
        [e-mail]

Postal mail   : --

Product          : SOSS [Son of Stan's Server]

Current Version: 3.2

Pricing          : free

Support          : none

Systems          : MS-DOS 5.x

Services      : server: nfs

Size          : ??

Features      : uses packet drivers. Available from FTP site:
            grape.ecs.clarkson.edu

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Y-7.  TCPWare for VMS: Process Software Corp.

Company       :    Process Software Corp.

Contact          :

Phone         :    [phone]

FAX          :

Email         :

Postal mail   : 959 Concord St.
        Farmingham,
        MA 01701
        USA

Product          :

Current Version:

Pricing          :

Support          :

Systems          :

Services      :

Size          :

Features      :

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Y-12    MacPPP

Company       :    Merit Network & Univ. of Michigan
        Larry Blunk, Eric Schneider

Contact          :

Phone         :

FAX          : -

Email         :

Postal mail   : -

Product          : MacPPP

Current Version: 1.1

Pricing          : free. Available from:
            merit.com:/pub/ppp/macppp.hqx

Support          : none

Systems          : Macintosh systems w/ MacTCP 1.1.1

Services      : Point-to-point Protocol driver

Size          :

Features      : Async serial line connection for Macintosh systems.

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Section W:  E-mail Software
===========================

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W-.  CliqAccessories : Quadratron Systems

Company       :    Quadratron Systems

Contact          : -

Phone         :    [phone] (California)

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : Quadratron Systems
        141 Triunfo Canyon Rd.
        Westlake Village,
        CA 91361

Product          : CliqAccessories

Current Version:

Pricing          : $645

Support          :

Systems          : DOS

TCP/IP support: ?

Mail Protocol : SMTP, MHS

Mail Filtering: available

Features      : calender/schedule application, phone book, notepad, calculator

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W-. Higgins Group Productivity Software: Enable Software

Company       :    Enable Software

Contact          : -

Phone         :    [phone] (US)
        [phone] (New York)

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    ?

Postal mail   : Enable Software
        313 Ushers Rd
        Northway Lake,
        NY 12019

Product          : Higgins Group Productivity Software

Current Version: 2.5

Pricing          : $695 (8 users)

Support          : ?

Systems          : DOS

TCP/IP support: ?

Mail Protocol : Proprietory, SMTP, MHS, X.400/XAPI

Mail Filtering: available

Features      : Calender/schedule software
        Forms processing

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W-. Linkage: Concentric Technologies

Company       :    Concentric Technologies

Contact          : -

Phone         :    [phone] (US)
        [phone] (Virginia)

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    ?

Postal mail   : Concentric Technologies
        12007 Sunrise Valley Dr.
        Ste 440
        Reston, VA 22091

Product          : Linkage

Current Version: 4.0

Pricing          : $69.50

Support          : ?

Systems          : DOS, Windows/NT

TCP/IP support: ?

Mail Protocol : SMTP, MHS, X.400/XAPI, UUCP

Mail Filtering: available

Features      : incoming fax to mailbox ability
        voice mail notification.

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W-.  OpenMail : Hewlett-Packard, Inc.

Company       :    Hewlett-Packard, Inc.

Contact          : -

Phone         :    [phone] (US)

FAX          : -

Email         :    -

Postal mail   : HP
        Cooperative Computing Systems Division
        19490 Homestead Rd.
        Cupertino,
        CA 95136

Product          : OpenMail

Current Version: ?

Pricing          : $14 - $50

Support          : ?

Systems          : DOS, Macintosh

TCP/IP support: ?

Mail Protocol : SMTP, X.400/XAPI, MAPI, VIM

Mail Filtering: available

Features      : phone book, bulletin board

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W-. PathWay Messenger : The Wollongong Group

Company       :    The Wollongong Group

Contact          : Marty Udisches
        ([e-mail])

Phone         :    [phone]
              [phone] (California) [toll-free]
                     [phone] (US)        [toll-free]
        [phone]  (Canada)
        [phone] (Europe)

FAX          : [phone] (US)

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : The Wollongong Group, Inc.
        1129 San Antonio Road
        Palo Alto, CA   94303
        USA

Product          : PathWay Messenger

Current Version: 1.0

Pricing          : $195

Support          : call

Systems          : 80x86 DOS 3.3 +

TCP/IP support: Wollongong PathWay Access

Mail Protocol : SMTP, POP2, POP3, IMAP

Mail Filtering: available

Features      : NETNEWS bulletin board

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W-.  PC-Eudora: Qualcomm Software, Inc.

Company       :    Qualcomm Software, Inc.

Contact          : -

Phone         :    -

FAX          : -

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : ?

Product          : PC-Eudora
        Eudora (for Macintosh)

Current Version: 11.10

Pricing          : free. Available via FTP from:
            ftp.qualcomm.com:/pceudora/windows

Support          : [e-mail]

Systems          : 80x86 w/ DOS 3.x

TCP/IP support: builtin + packet drivers

Mail Protocol : SMTP, POP2, POP3

Mail filtering: ??

Features      : POP2/3 news client

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W-. SelectMail : SunSelect

Company       :    SunSelect

Contact          : -

Phone         :    (800) 24-SELECT (US)
        [phone] (Massachussets)

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    -

Postal mail   : SunSelect
        2 Elizabeth Drive,
        Chelmsford,
        MA 01824-4195

Product          : SelectMail

Current Version:

Pricing          : $180

Support          : call

Systems          : DOS 3.3 +

TCP/IP support: PC-NFS

Mail Protocol : SMTP, POP 2, POP 3

Mail Filtering: none

Features      : independant message folders
        deferred semdomg
        automated scheduler and backup

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Section X:  X-windows Software
==============================

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X-1.  eXceed: Hummingbird Communications Ltd

Company       :    Hummingbird Communications Ltd

Contact          : -

Phone         :    [phone] [US & Canada]
        [phone] [Europe]

FAX          : [phone] [US & Canada]
        [phone] [Europe]

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : 2900 John Street,
        Unit 4, Markham,
        Ontario, L3R 5G3
        Canada

        37-39 rue de Vermont,
        1202 Geneva,
        Switzerland

Product          : HCL eXceed/W

Current Version:

Pricing          : ??

Support          : site license available in UK from Chest

Systems          : MS-Windows 3.x

Services      : clients: telnet, FTP, Launch Pad (Menuing facility), Xtrace
            (protocol tracing)
        servers: X11R5 (support for scalable fonts, font servers,
            XDMCP security)

Size          :

Features      : 24-bit color & plane mask support
        supports 15 different TCP/IP transports & DECnet
        Xlib, Xt intrinsics, Xaw (Athena Widgets) & Xmu (Motif)
        libraries
        HCL-eXceed Plus - DOS-based X server with local window
        manager and support for EGA, VGA & SVGA
        HCL-eXceed HiRes - same as "Plus" but also supports 8514A,
        XGA, TIGA 2
        HCL-eXtend - UNIX host based X clients for accessing DOS
        services
        HCL-eXceed/Xpress - High performance X server over phone
        lines
        HCL-eXceed/NT - X server for PC's running Windows NT
        HCL-eXceed/NT-XDK - X Development Kit for Windows NT

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X-2.  eXcursion for Windows: Digital Equipment Corp.

Company       :    DEC

Contact          :

Phone         :

FAX          :

Email         :

Postal mail   :

Product          : eXcursion for Windows

Current Version: 1.0

Pricing          :

Support          :

Systems          : 80x86 w/ 2MB RAM & DOS 3.0 & higher & MS-Windows 3.0 or higher

Services      :

Size          : 7-15 MB [on disk]

Features      : Works with:
           Pathworks for DOS (DECnet, TCP/IP)
           PC/TCP
           3Com 3+Open TCP
            cut & paste between Xwindows & MS-Windows
        SNF font compiler
        keyboard redefinition
        three button mouse emulation.

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X-3.  eXodus: White Pines Software, Inc.

Company       :    White Pines Software, Inc.

Contact          :

Phone         :    [phone]

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : White Pine Software, Inc.
            40 Simon Street, Suite 201
            Nashua, NH 03060-3043
        USA

Product          : eXodus for Macintosh
        eXodus for MS-Windows
        (also available eXodus for NeXTSTEP)

Current Version: 5.0

Pricing          : eXodus for Macintosh  : $296 /copy
        eXodus for MS-Windows : $449 /copy

Support          :

Systems          : Macintosh w System 6.x & higher or A/UX, MS-Windows 3.x

Services      : server: X11R5

Size          :

Features      : XDMCP security, ICCCM compliant, XRemote
        Backing store support, Multiple X screen support, Font
        servers, rootless & rooted windows
        Supports Motif, OpenLook, DECWindows
         eXodus for Macintosh supports:
              MacTCP, Novell TCPort/LAN Workplace, TSSnet (Thursby
              Software Systems), DECnet (CommUnity-Mac), DECnet
              (Pathworks), ADSP (Pathworks), Appletalk.
            MultiFinder support,
            System 6.x or later
            eXodus I for Macintosh runs without FPU (MacIIsi,
              LC, LCII, LCIII, 512k, etc.)
            eXodus II for Macintosh requires an FPU (most other
              Macs)
             eXodus for MS-Windows

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X-4.  Micro X-Lite: StarNet Communications Corporation

Company       :    StarNet Communications Corporation

Contact          : Dick Montgomery ([e-mail])

Phone         :    [phone]

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : StarNet Communications Corporation
        3073 Lawrence Expressway
        Santa Clara, CA 95051

Product          : Micro X-Lite, X-enlite, X-DOS, X-WIN

Current Version: X-Lite -     1.7.2
         X-enlite -     1.5.3
         X-DOS    -    1.7.2
         X-WIN      -     2.5.4

Pricing          : X-Lite -     $75
        X-enLite -    $150
        X-DOS -        $345
        X-WIN -     $425

Support          : call or [e-mail]

Systems          : 80x86 w/ 640 KB & DOS 3.1 or higher (X-Lite)
        80386 w/ 2MB RAM & DOS 3.1 & higher (X-enlite, X-DOS)
        80386 w/ 4MB RAM & Win 3.x (X-WIN)

Services      : servers: X11R4 (w/ builtin TCP/IP)
        X-WIN: X11R5

Size          : X-Lite 2MB [on disk]
        X-DOS, X-enLite - 4MB [on disk]
        X-WIN - 5 MB [on disk]

Cards          : 3Com 3C501, 3C503 (Etherlink II), 3C505, 3C523
            Cabletron 1000, 2000, & 3000
            Micom-Interlan NI5010 & NI5210
            Western Digital WD80003E
            Novell NE-1000 & NE-2000
        Packet driver supported cards

Features      : Supports StarNet TCP/IP (integrated), BW-TCP, PC/TCP, Novell
        LWP, PC-NFS, Lanera TCPOpen, Winsock 1.1
        Support for Motif, OpenLook & DECWindows.
        Graphics cards supported:
          Ahead V5000, ATI 18800, Everex VP, Everex VGA, Genoa 6400,
          Paradise 900C00, 900C11, 900C30, STB EM-16, Trident
          8800CS, ET-3000, ET-4000, Video7 HT208, Video7 V7VGA,

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X-5.  MultiView/X: JSB Corporation

Company       :    JSB Corporation

Contact          :

Phone         :    [phone] [US]
        [phone] [US, Calif]
        [phone] [UK]

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :

Postal mail   :

Product          : MultiView/X

Current Version:

Pricing          :

Support          : call

Systems          : 80x86 w/ DOS 3.x & higher & MS-Windows 3.x

Services      : server: X11R4 (full font library, XDMCP)

Size          :

Features      : Supports
          RS232 direct & modem connections
          3Com 3+Open TCP,
          BW-TCP,
          D-Link TCP/IP for DOS,
          PC/TCP,
          HP Arpa Services for DOS,
          IBM AIX access for DOS,
          Locus TCP/IP,
          MS LAN Manager for Unix,
          Novell LAN Workplace for DOS,
          SCO Xenix-Net,
          SunSelect PC-NFS,
          Ungermann-Bass Net/One,
          Wollongong PathWay for DOS,

        Support for passive telnet, rsh, rexec, & XDMCP startup
        modes
        BDF to Windows font compiler

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X-6.  PC-Xware & PC-Xview : NCD, Inc.

Company       :    Network Computing Devices, Inc.

Contact          : Tom Holder

Phone         :    [phone] [US, NCD sales]
        [phone] [US, PC-Xdivision]
        0628-822228    [UK sales]
        +03 5276 2411  [Japan sales]

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : Network Computing Devices, Inc.
        PC-Xdivision
        5990 SW Gemini Drive
        Beaverton, Oregon 97005
        USA

Product          : PC-Xware for Windows
          "      NetPack     - Chameleon additions
          "      NetPackNFS  - Chameleon NFS additions
          "     Remote      - Xremote (X over Serial lines) version

        PC-Xview for DOS     - X11R4 compatible, DECwindows support,
                          Graphics(CGA,MGA,EGA,VGA,SVGA,8514/A,
                         TIGA,DGIS,XGA)
            "      Xremote edition

        XRemote Host Software

Current Version:

Pricing          :
                             Multi-user
    PC-Xware for Windows    Part #   List   20-49  50-99  100-199  200+
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    PC-Xware        PC2510    $545    $327   $289    $245    $218
    PC-Xware NetPack    PC2530    $735    $441   $404    $382    $360
    PC-Xware NetPackNFS    PC2540  $795    $477   $437    $413    $390
    PC-Xware Remote        PC2520  $275    $179   $171    $162    $154

    PC-Xview for DOS    PC1270  $445    $267   $236    $200    $178
    PC-Xview for DOS:     PC1290  $199    $129   $123    $117    $111
      PC-Xremote Edition

    XRemote Host Software:  PC3020    $100
      PC Edition

    Manuals
    -------
    PC-Xware for Windows    PC2510-2 $25
    PC-Xview for DOS    PC1270-2 $25

Note: All PC-X software is shipped single media (3.5") except PC-Xview for
DOS (dual). To order 5.25" media include and additional line item with the
product part number and a "-M".

Multi-User licenses includes one set of software and one manual for on-site
installation by system administrator.
To order Multi-user licenses, add a "-S" to the part number and note the
quantity desired. For multi-user licenses over 500 copies, contact the
PC-Xdivision.

The price for expanding an existing multi-user license is based on the total
number of seats at a site after ther expansion, not on the current number
being added. To order an expansion, add a "-SA" to the part number and note
the current number being added and the original multi-user license
identification number.

Support          :

Annual Maintenance
------------------
Annual maintenance provide multi-user customers with periodic software
updates. The rates are 15% of the multi-user license total. Customers with
colume packaged product in excess of 20 seats may also purchase Annual
Maintenance at 15% of the equivalent Multi-user License total. Bothe
Multi-User and packaged product customers receive one copy of the disks and
documentation for each update. When adding additional seats, the cost is
1.25% of the additional seat cost, product number; to order additional
maintenance to an existing agreement, add a "-AA" to the product number. In
both instances, Multi-User customers must include their license
identification number.

Systems          : DOS 3.2x or higher (for PC-Xview for DOS),
            MS-Windows 3.x (for PC-Xware for Windows) with:
            80386
            4 MB RAM

Services      : clients: terminal emulation (VT 100, 102, 220, 320),
             NFS (optional), FTP (optional), telnet,
             SMTP, POP2, SNMP, window managers (NCDwm,
             MS-Windows, Host-based [OpenLook, Motif, etc])
        servers: X11R5 (Font server support w/ TrueType & ATM for
             Windows, XDMCP support, Backing store, Save under
             and shape extension support) for Windows version,
             X11R4 for DOS version, XRemote

Size          : 5 MB [on disk]

Features      : Uses NetManage TCP/IP product for communication.
        DECnet support via DEC PathWorks.
        Supports CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA, XGA, TIGA, 8514/a, Japanese
             Graphics mode
        Third-Party TCP/IP include:
            Beame & Whiteside Software, Ltd.
            DEC
            Frontier Technologies Corp.
            FTP Software, Inc.
            Hewlett-Packard Corp.
            Microsoft Corp.
            Novell, Inc.
            Sun Microsystems, Inc.
            Ungermann-Bass, Ltd.
            The Wollongong Group, Inc.
            3Com Corp.
            Windows Sockets API
        Can be run from a server.
        cut & paste between Xwindows & MS-Windows
        Administration & configuration:
           License server capability
           Remote configuartion cia NCDware User Services
           SNMP with NCD MIB extensions for X

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X-7  PC X-Server & PC-Link: XLink

Company       :    XLink

Contact          :

Phone         :    [phone]

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :

Postal mail   : XLink
        741 Ames Ave.,
        Milpitas CA 95035
        USA

Product          : PC X-Server
        PC-Link

Current Version:

Pricing          : PC X-Server    $249
        PC-Link        $99

Support          :

Systems          : 386 w/ 4 MB, DOS 3.3

Services      : clients: telnet (vt 52, 100, ANSI), FTP, TFTP, NFS, Tar
        servers: X11R5 (PC X-Server)

Size          : 2 MB [on disk]

Features      : Supports NDIS, ODI, SLIP, Packet drivers
        Supports S-3 based adapters, 8514 based adapters,
        SVGA [Paradise/Western Digital WD90C00/11/30/21,
        OAK 067/077, Trident 8900/9000, Tseng ET3000/ET4000, ATI
        Wonder, Cirrus Logix 542x, Video 7 HT208/209/216] & VGA
        X server recognizes SNF, PCF & SPD fonts

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X-8.  PC Xsight: Locus Computing Corporation

Company       :    Locus Computing Corporation

Contact          : -

Phone         :    [phone] [US]
        [phone] [US, Calif]
        [phone]  [UK]

FAX          : -

Email         :    -

Postal mail   : 9800 La Cienega Blvd.
        Inglewood, CA 90301
        USA

Product          : PC Xsight

Current Version:

Pricing          :

Support          :

Systems          : 8088, 8086, 80x86, DOS 3.1 or later

Services      :

Size          : 512 KB base memory, 896 extended memory,
        1 MB [disk usage]

Cards          : Excelan EXOS 205/205T
        3Com 3C501
        Western Digital WD8003E
        Micom NI5210
        Multitech 5220

Features      : supports 2 or 3 button mouse
        EGA, VGA, Hercules, AT&T 6300



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X-9.  PC DECWindows Motif : Digital Equipment Corporation

Company       :    Digitial Equipment Corporation

Contact          :

Phone         :

FAX          :

Email         :

Postal mail   : PC DECWindows Development
        Digital Equipment Corporation
        30 Porter Rd.
        Littleton, MA 01460
        USA

Product          : PC DECWindows Motif

Current Version: 3.0

Pricing          :

Support          :

Systems          :

Services      :

Size          :

Cards          : ??

Features      : Supports EGA (16 col. & mono), MCGA, VGA (16 color & mono)
         enhanced VGA (800x600 16 color & mono), 8514/a (1024x768
         16/256 color)
        X11 Release 4 server
        integrated memory manager
        Font compiler for Adobe Bitmap Distribution files
        Supports TCP/IP & DECNET from DEC.

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X-10.  Reflection X : Walker, Richer & Quinn

Coming soon

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X-11.  X Appeal : Xtreme s.a.s.

Company       :    Xtreme s.a.s.

Contact          : Giovanni Novelli

Phone         :    -

FAX          : [phone] [Italy]

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : Xtreme s.a.s.
        Livorno, Italy

Product          : X Appeal

Current Version: 1.3

Pricing          :               Price per copy for
     Product        1 copy  20 copies  50 copies  100 copies  200 copies
    ====================================================================
    X Appeal        US$250    US$218     US$184     US$150      US$117

    unlimited site license: US $30,000

    additional 30% off for educational institutions.

    Demo versions available from:
        garbo.uwasa.fi: pc/demo/{xap13exe.zip, xap10fon.zip}

Support          : -

Systems          : 386SX or higher w/ 2MB RAM (4MB rec.) & DOS 3.3 or higher

Services      : X11R5 (inc. PEX, font server, european keyboard layouts, XDMCP)

Size          : ~ 3MB [on disk]

Cards          : packet driver support.

Features      : TCP/IP included.
        Support for OpenWindows, DECWindwos fonts
        Support for MIT X-Authorization (Magic cookie)
        Graphics support: SVGA (256 col.), Ahead V5000B, C&T 82C452,
        NCR 77C22E, Genoa (6400), Oak Tech. (OTI-067),
        Paradise/Western Digital WD90C00, Trident 8900,
        Trident 8900C,  Tseng Labs (ET3000, ET4000).

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X-12.  Xoftware : AGE Logic, Inc.

Company       :    AGE Logic, Inc.

Contact          : Craig  A. Schmidt, VP Marketing
        Scott Sabul

Phone         :    [phone]
        [phone]

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : AGE Logic, Inc.
        9985 Pacific Heights Blvd.
        San Diego, CA 92121-4337
        USA

Product          : Xoftware for DOS
        Xoftware/32 for MS-Windows
        Xoftware/32 for MS-Windows NT
        Xoftware for Windows Desktop Edition (DT).

Current Version: DOS - 1.4
         Windows - 2.02
         Windows DT - 1.7
         Windows NT - 1.0

Pricing          : Xoftware for DOS - $195
        Xoftware/32 for Windows - $395
        Xoftware/32 for NT - $495
        Xoftware for Windows Desktop Edition - $195

Support          : telephone support 7am-5pm (PST), BBS

Systems          : 80386 w/ 2 MB RAM & Windows 3.x or higher (Windows ver)
        80286 w/ 2 MB RAM & DOS 3.1 or higer (DOS ver.)
        x86 or MIPS R4000 systems (NT ver)

Services      : server: X11R5 server

Size          : 2 MB [disk space]

Cards          : depends on Network software used:
          3Com 3+Open TCP 1.2 or higher
          DEC Pathworks TCP/IP 1.1 or higher
          PC/TCP 2.05 or higher
          Novell LAN Workplace 4.01 or higher
          SunSelect PC-NFS 3.5 or higher
          Wollogong PathWay 2.05 or higher
          Ungermann-Bass Net/ONE TCP 16.5 or higher
          Wollongong WinTCP 1.1 or higher
          Wollongong PathWay Access 4.1.1 or higher
          Walker Richer, Quinn TCP 2.0 or higher
          winsock version available (call AGE)

Features      : Hotkeys to DOS & MS Windows
        Motif, OpenLook, DECWindows support
        International keyboard support
        Full SNF font library
        Supports EGA, VGA, SVGA, 8514
        XDMCP support, 32 bit Xserver.

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X-13.  X/Vision: Visionware

Company       :    Visionware

Contact          : A. Rodriguez [US]

Phone         :    [phone] [US]
        [phone] [US, California]
        [phone] [Europe]

FAX          : [phone] [US]
        [phone] [Europe]

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : VisionWare
        1020 Marsh Road, Suite 220
        Menlo Park, CA 94025
        USA

        57 Cardigan Lane
        Leeds LS4 2LE
        UK

Product          : X/Vision

Current Version: 5

Pricing          : $395 single. site licenses available (call)

Support          : unlimited toll-free telephone support dor all VisionWare
        products

Systems          : MS-DOS 3.0 or later, MS-Windows 3.x, Windows NT
        1.2 MB 5.25" or 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy drive
        2MB of RAM required; 4MB recommended

Services      : clients: object-oriented desktop (drag & drop facility),
                        VT320 emulation, REXEC, RSH, RLOGIN and telnet,
            file transfer & local printing
        server: X11R5 server (fonts, font server & XDMCP security)

Size          :

Features      : Optimized serial communication support via XRemote support
        Comprehensive 24-bit color support
        Automatic network protocol detection and configuration
        Automatic font substitution as well as standard MIT fonts
        (75 & 100 dpi), DECwindows and Open Look. TrueType and
        Adobe fonts can be mapped.
        SHAPE extensions, XRemote support.
        Will work with the following systems:
            Beame & Whiteside TCP/IP
            DECnet
            Excelan LAN WorkPlace 3.5
            FTP PC/TCP 2.05 & 2.03/4
            Hewlett Packard ARPA Services 2.0 & 2.1
            Locus TCP/IP for DOS v1.0 & 2.0
            NetManage Newt & Chameleon
            Novell LAN WorkPlace for DOS 3.5 & 4.0
            Novell Netware
            Sun PC-NFS v3.5 & 4.0
            Ungermann-Bass NET/One TCP-PC 16.4
            Wollongong PathWay 2.0
            Wollongong WIN/TCP for DOS
            Windows Sockets Interface
            3Com TCP 1.2 (3+Open)

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X-14.  X-Windows for OS/2: IBM

Company       :    IBM

Contact          : -

Phone         :    (800) IBM-CALL

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    -

Postal mail   :

Product          : IBM X-Windows for OS/2  (PTP# 02G6980)

Current Version: 1.2.1

Pricing          : $150 X-Windows
        $350 X-Windows & TCP/IP for OS/2 [TCP/IP package required to
        run]

Support          : call

Systems          : 80386SX or higher w/ 6MB RAM & OS/2 2.x

Services      : server: X11R5 (font library & compiler)

Size          :

Features      : Support for EGA, VGA, SVGA, XGA, 8514/a, any other OS/2
          supported cards
        Requires IBM OS/2 TCP/IP
        Other modules available: NFS, Programmers Toolkit (RPC,
          sockets API, resolver API, Kerberos, etc.)

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Section Z: Organizations, Products & Other Information sources
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Z-1.  AIR for Windows: SPRY, Inc.

Company       :    SPRY, Inc.

Contact          : -

Phone         :    [phone]

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : 316 Occidental Avenue South
        Seattle, Washington 98104
        USA

Product           :AIR for Windows

Current Version:

Pricing          : single copy = $162 (UniDirect price, NOT list)
        10-more     = less than $100

Support          :

Systems          : MS-Windows 3.1

Services      : clients: telnet (vt220), FTP, LPR, Ping, NFS client
        (option), (support for TN3270, X-servers, SQL databases)
        AIRMAIL (smtp)

Size          :

Features      : supports ODI & NDIS
        Windows Sockets support.

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Z-2.  BW-NFS & BW-TCP: Beame & Whiteside

Company       : Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd.

Contact       : Terry Woloszyn

Phone         : [phone]

FAX           : [phone]

Email         : [e-mail]

Postal mail   : Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd.
        706 Hillsborough St.
        Raleigh, North Carolina
        USA, 27603-1655

Product       : BW-TCP, BW-NFS, BW-NFS for Lan WorkPlace, Boot Proms

Current Version: BW-TCP and BW-NFS version 3.0, BW-NFS for LWP v2.3

Pricing       :
        Order #         Description                     Purchase
                                                      Price per Copy
        ============================================================
        BW310           BW-TCP                          $245.00
        BW410           BW-NFS                          $349.00
        BW420           BW-NFS for LAN WorkPlace        $245.00
        BW430           BW-NFS for Ungermann-Bass       $245.00
        BW511           BW-BOOTP PROM (WD80x3)           $50.00
        BW512           BW-BOOTP PROM (3C501)            $50.00
        BW551           BW-BOOTR PROM (WD80x3)           $50.00
        BW552           BW-BOOTR PROM (3C501)            $50.00

        "Right to Copy" discounts are offered for all products
        except for BW-BOOT PROMS.  Discounts are calculated by the
        number of individual copies ordered multiplied by the
        purchase price per copy minus the discount level percentage.

            Example:  BW-NFS required for 37 computers (Level 2)
                      37 x $349.00 = $12,913.00 - 36% ($4,648.68) = $8,264.32

Description   Level  Level  Level   Level    Level   Level     Level   Level
                1      2      3       4        5       6        7        8

No. of Copies  5-19  20-49  50-99  100-249  250-499  500-749  750-999  1000+
Discount        30%    36%    39%     46%      55%      62%      66%    69%

        FOB Shipping Point
        All pricing is quoted in United States dollars.
        Shipment (unless otherwise requested): UPS Air.
        Prices subject to change without notice.
        Media (unless otherwise requested): 3´"

Support       : we do offer a maintenance and support agreement (if you
        would like further info I can fax it to you), phone support
        is through the telephone number above or by email at
        [e-mail],
        Ftp sites are:
            dorm.rutgers.edu     and
            ftp.bws.com

Systems       : DOS 3.1 and above, DRDOS 6.0, MS-Windows 3.x

Services      : client: NFS (up to 24 disks, 8 printers), telnet (vt52,
            vt100, vt220),  TN3270, FTP, ping, TFTP, XMODEM,
             Kermit, finger, whois, nslookup, traceroute
            (TROUTE), talk, POP2/3, SMTP, BW-TAR, COM14

        server: ftpd, fingerd, lpd, tnamed, talkd/ntalkd, cookied,
            telnetd, inetd, snmpd

Size          : BW-TCP 26K typical configuration, loadable high
        BW-NFS 30K typical configuration, loadable high
        approx 2 MB on hard disk

Features      : BW-NFS includes BW-TCP product.
        NDIS/Packet/ODI drivers supported, co-existance with
         Novell, SLIP, Boot PROMs, third party applications - x vendors
        currently have a sockets diskette that we will ship if asked
        for, WINSOCK support within one month.
        First INETD for Windows. Supports TELNETD with remote logins
        as virtual DOS windows.
        Supported Network Interface cards:
            3Com 3C501, 3C503
            SMC Elite Series,
            NDIS, ODI, Packet driver, SLIP, Token-Ring Interfaces
        Minimum Configuration required:
            IBM PC or 100% compatible with 256K Ram
            One floppy disk drive

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Z-3.  Chameleon NFS: NetManage, Inc.

Company       :    NetManage, Inc.

Contact          : Zvi Alon & Fritz Mueller
        Jerry Kenny

Phone         :    [phone]

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : NetManage, Inc.
        20823 Stevens Creek Blvd,
        Cupertino, CA 95014
        USA

Product          : Chameleon NFS

Current Version: 3.10

Pricing          : Site License pricing available on request.

    Product                Price    Product #
    ====================================================
    Chameleon            $400    P/N CHAM-001
    ChameleonNFS            $495    P/N CHNS-001
    Xsession            $445
    Chameleon32 (NT Developer rel)    $495    P/N IPXL-001
    IPX/Link (Netware option)    $150
    NEWT-SDK (req. Chameleon)    $500
    RPC-SDK    (req. Chameleon & NEWT)    $500

Support          : [e-mail]
        [phone] [9am-9pm (EST), weekdays]
        quarterly newsletter.
        FTP server (ftp.netmanage.com)
        Maintanence contracts are available which give free support
        and free upgrades for 1 year.

Systems          : MSDOS 5.x, Windows 3.x

Services      : client: telnet (vt 52, 100, 220, ANSI), TN3270, FTP, TFTP,
            SMTP, POP2, SNMP, Ping, BIND, NFS, Finger, Whois,
            BOOTP, Statistics, IP Routing
        server: TFTP, FTP, NFS, DNS, SMTP, POP2, SNMP Agent

Size          : 6KB (RAM), 3 MB of disk space

Features      :    100% DLL
        5 minute installation
        All applications are Windows based
        supports Ethernet, Token-Ring, FDDI, NDIS, SLIP, X.25
        WinSock API, Berkeley 4.3 sockets API, ONC RPC/XDR,
        and WinSNMP API tools available
        Works concurrently with Netware, LAN MAnager, Vines, etc.
        Up to 64 concurrent sessions.
        Overnight delivery
        PC X server and DOS based product are available
        A product for Windows NT is available.

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Z-4.  CU/TCP: Clarkson University

Organization  :    Clarkson University & Rutgers University

Contact          : -

Phone         :    -

FAX          : -

Email         :

Postal mail   : -

Product          : CU/TCP

Current Version: 2.5

Pricing          : free. Available from the following sites:
            ftp-ns.rutgers.edu:/pub/msdos/cutcp/current/*

Support          : none

Systems          : MS-DOS

Services      : clients: telnet (vt100), TN3270, FTP, SLIP
        servers: ftpd (during open connections only)

Size          :

Features      : works with the following drivers:
            3c503, appletalk, slip, WD8003
        works with Packet drivers, ODI


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Z-5.   Distinct TCP

Company       :    Distinct Corp.

Contact          : -

Phone         :    [phone]

FAX          : -

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : Distinct Corp.
        14082 Loma Rio Drive,
        Saratoga,
        CA 95070
        USA

Product          : Distinct TCP

Current Version: 3.02

Pricing          :

Support          :

Systems          :

Services      :

Size          :

Features      : supports Ethernet, Token-Ring, packet drivers, NDIS, SLIP,
        PPP, ODI

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Z-7.  LAN Workplace: Novell, Inc.

Company       :    Novell, Inc.

Contact          : -

Phone         :    (800) 772-UNIX

FAX          : -

Email         :

Postal mail   : Novell, Inc.
        122 East 1700 South,
        Provo,
        UT 84606
        USA

Product          : LAN Workplace

Current Version: 4.1r8

Pricing          :

Support          :

Systems          :

Services      :

Size          :

Features      : support Ethernet, Token-Ring, packet drivers (shim), NDIS
        (shim),    SLIP, PPP, ODI

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Z-8.  NCSA Telnet: National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Company       :    National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Contact          : -

Phone         :    -

FAX          : -

Email         :

Postal mail   :

Product          : WinTel v1.0b.1 (MS-Windows version)
        NCSA Telnet (DOS version)
        NCSA Telnet (Macintosh version)

Current Version: 2.5

Pricing          : free. Available from the following sites:
            zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/PC/Telnet/msdos
            zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/PC/Telnet/windows

Support          : none.

Systems          : MS-DOS, MS-Windows, MacOS

Services      : clients: telnet (vt100), TN3270, FTP, SLIP
        servers: ftpd (during open connections only)

Size          :

Features      : works with the following drivers:
            3c503, appletalk, slip, WD8003
        works with Packet drivers

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Z-9.  NFS/Share: Intercon Systems Corp

Company       :    Intercon Systems Corp.

Contact          : [e-mail]

Phone         :    (703) 709-55000

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : 950 Herndon Pkwy,
        Suite 420
        Herndon,
        VA 22070
        USA

Product          : NFS/Share

Current Version: 1.3

Pricing          :

    Number of Copies    Cost
    ===============================
    1 copy             $295
    10-user bundle         $2,495
    25-user bundle         $4,995
    50-user bundle         $8,900
    100-user bundle     $14,950

    educational discounts available.


Support          : First 90 days of support free;
        Extended support may be purchased separately
        Technical support: [phone] or
                   [e-mail]

Systems          : Macintosh II series, System 6.05 or later

Services      : NFS/Share: NFS client for Macintosh systems.

Size          : 212 KB

Features      : Simple to use--Files from the remote systems take on the
        familiar format of the Mac documents you always use. There
        are no new operating procedures or software systems to
        learn. Certain text files, such as UNIX, are accessible
        from any Macintosh editor or word processor.

        Macintosh resident--Once you have the physical link to the
        network and NFS/Share, you need nothing other than access
        to NFS servers on the network. NFS/Share works with
        Macintosh computers and is completely System 7.0 compatible.

        Access multiple remote machines easily--Just go through Apple's
        Chooser and you are there. A list of available servers or
        remote systems appears in a pop-up window. You can access
        several remote machines at the same time, and, just like
        your hard drive, they appear as icons on your desktop.

        Apple standard--NFS/Share uses Apple's defined standards
        (AppleSingle or AppleDouble) for representing files for
        foreign file systems.

        Simultaneous access--Multiple users can easily access the same
        information at the same time without the need for different
        mounting points.

        Security maintained--User authentication is done through Sun
        Microsystems' NIS (Yellow Pages), PCNFSD, or BWNFSD. Each
        user is presented with lists of access or mounting points
        automatically.


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Z-10.   NS & ARPA Services: Hewlett-Packard

Company       :    Hewlett-Packard

Contact          : -

Phone         :    [phone]

FAX          :

Email         :

Postal mail   : Hewlett-Packard
        19420 Homestead Rd.,
        Cupertino,
        CA 94014
        USA

Product          : NS & ARPA Services

Current Version: 2.5

Pricing          :

Support          :

Systems          :

Services      :

Size          :

Features      : supports Ethernet, Token-Ring, packet drivers, NDIS, ODI (shim)

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Z-11. PathWay Access & Client NFS:The Wollongong Group, Inc.

Company       :    The Wollongong Group, Inc.

Contact          : Marty Udisches
        [phone]
        [e-mail]

Phone         :    [phone]
              [phone] (California) [toll-free]
                     [phone] (US)        [toll-free]
        [phone]  (Canada)
        [phone] (Europe)

FAX          : [phone] (US)

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : The Wollongong Group, Inc.
        1129 San Antonio Road
        Palo Alto, CA   94303
        USA

Product          : PathWay Access & Client NFS [PathWay product line]

Current Version: 2.0

Pricing          : PathWay Access - $350 (multi-copy pricing - call)
        Client NFS - $95
        API Developer's Kit for DOS/Windows - $200

Support          : call

Systems          : MS-DOS 5.x, MS-Windows 3.x

Services      : clients: telnet (vt 100, 200, 320, 330) IBM TN3270 (model 2
            - 5), IBM 3179g, Tektronix 4010, FTP, mail,
            newsreader, scripting language. NFS, LPR
        servers: ftpd,

Size          : 50-60 KB (in RAM)

Features      : adjustable read & write block sizes
        available standalone or as option to Pathway Access TCP/IP
        package.
        similar functionality, look-and-feel & API compatibility
        across DOS, MS-Windows, Macintosh, OS/2, OpenVMS.
        Support for ODI, NDIS, PDS, ASI, ODI/NDIS, SLIP, PPP,
        IPX/NDIS, IP/IPX, IP/NetBIOS.
        Support for Etherenet, Token-Ring, Async, X.25

Special          : for Pathway Access: 30-day free evaluation copy.

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Z-X.   PathWay Access for Macintosh: The Wollongong Group

Company       :    The Wollongong Group

Contact          : George Stump & Marty Udiches
        ([e-mail] & [e-mail])

Phone         :    [phone]
              [phone] (California)
                     [phone] (US)
        [phone]  (Canada)
        [phone] (Europe)

FAX          : [phone] (US)

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : The Wollongong Group, Inc.
        1129 San Antonio Road
        Palo Alto, CA   94303
        USA

Product          : PathWay Access & Client NFS [PathWay product line]

Current Version:

Pricing          : Access for Macintosh - $295
        Client NFS         - $295

Support          : call

Systems          : Macintosh II series

Services      : clients: telnet (vt 100, 200, 320, 330) IBM TN3270 (model 2
            - 5), IBM 3179g, Tektronix 4010, FTP, mail,
            newsreader, scripting language. NFS, LPR
        servers: ftpd,

Size          : -

Features      : Supports Ethernet.

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Z-12.  PathWay Access for OS/2: The Wollongong Group

Company       :    The Wollongong Group

Contact          : Jeff Oxendine
        [phone]

Phone         :    [phone]
              [phone] (California) [toll-free]
                     [phone] (US)        [toll-free]
        [phone]  (Canada)
        [phone] (Europe)

FAX          : [phone] (US)

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : The Wollongong Group, Inc.
        1129 San Antonio Road
        Palo Alto, CA 94303-4310
        USA

Product          : PathWay Access for OS/2

Current Version: ?

Pricing          : ?

Support          : call

Systems          : IBM PS/2 or 386 w/ 1MB RAM, OS/2 2.x

Services      : clients: telnet (vt 100, 220, 240, 320, 340, IBM 3278,
             3179G, Tektronix 4105, 4010), FTP, DNS, LPR, Ping,
             Stat

Size          : At least 2 MB [on disk], 80 KB [average, RAM]

Features      : Supports NDIS & ODI for Ethernet & Token-Ring
        Supports Netware, LAN Manager, VINES, IBM LAN Server
        Keyboard remapping.
        Supports NetBIOS, SNMP, SNAP, ARP
        Up to 12 concurrent terminal connections
        API Developrs Tool Kit available; this includes BSD 4.3
        Sockets, 32 bit DLL.
        Online help available.
        Service Scripting capabilities.

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Z-13. PC-NFS: SunSelect

Company       :    SunSelect

Contact          : John Keyes
        [phone]
        [e-mail]

Phone         :    (800) 24SELECT
        [phone]

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :

Postal mail   : SunSelect,
        2 Elizabeth Drive,
        Chelmsford,
        MA 01824
        USA

Product          : PC-NFS

Current Version: 5.0

Pricing          :

    Description            Order        List/Discount
                    Number         Price/Category
    -----------------------------------------------------------

    PC-NFS 5.0            PCN-P             $435/B
    PC-NFS 5.0 single license    PCN-W             $365/B
    PC-NFS 5.0 Base Pack        PCN-B**             $105/B
    PC-NFS 5.0 25 user license    PCN-L25**      $5,535/B
    PC-NFS 5.0 100 user license    PCN-L100**    $12,990/ND
    PC-NFS 5.0 500 user license    PCN-L500**    $48,650/ND
    PC-NFS 5.0 upgrade        PCN-PF              $80/ND
    PC-NFS 5.0 site upgrade        PCN-PSITEF     $4,050/ND
    PC-NFS 5.0 documentation    PCN-D              $75/ND
    (minimum order quantity 10)

    **L25, L100, L500 require a Base Pack

Support          : Compuserve: "go sunselect"
        Internet Ftp sites:
            bcm.tmc.edu
            src.doc.ic.ac.uk
            ftpserver.massey.ac.nz
            ftp.york.ac.uk
        A 5 year site license is available in the UK from Chest [Z-28]

Systems          : MS-DOS 5.x, MS-Windows 3.x
Services      : clients : NFS, telnet (vt 52, 100, 220, 320), rsh, rcp,
              rexec, ping, nfsping, NIS, netstat
        servers : ftp, print server (optional), SNMP (optional)
        other: Windows Sockets ABI


Size          : 80-90 KB (RAM usage) [can be loaded high],
        requires 3.5 MB free disk space for new install, 6.0 MB for
        Windows install.

Features      : ISO-9660 CD-ROM, OS/2 FAT support.
        Coexists with: Windows for Workgroups, Netware 3.x, NetBIOS
        ODI drivers, NDIS drivers, packet drivers.
        Ethernet, Token-Ring, SLIP
        Support for Solaris 2.x (Solaris-on-Intel version
        forthcoming)
        Remote server-based Licensing management.
        WinSock API support.
        Minimum requirements:
            IBM PC w/ 640 KB RAM
            MSDOS 3.3
            3.5 MB for DOS install, 6.0 for MSWindows install
        Supported boards:
            3Com 3C503, 3C505, 3C523,
            Ungerman-Bass PC-NIC
            Western Digital WD8003E
            Racal Interlan NT5010
            IBM Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter for (AT & MCA
            buses)
        NDIS compatible supported boards:
            3C501, 3C503, 3C505, 3C507, 3C523
            WD8003E/A, WD8003E/B
            NE1000, NE2000
            Xircom Ethernet Adapters
            3Com TokenLink AT bus

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Z-14.  PC/TCP: FTP Software, Inc.

Company       :    FTP Software, Inc.

Contact          : Chip Sparling
        [e-mail]
        [phone]
        [phone] [FAX]

Phone         :    [phone]    - general information
        [phone]    - sales informaiton
        (800) 282-4FTP    - sales
        [phone]    - technical support
        (800) 282-4FTP  - support

FAX          : [phone]  - sales
        [phone]  - techincal support
        [phone]  - general

Email         :    [e-mail]    - general information
        [e-mail]    - sales information
        [e-mail]    - technical support

Postal mail   : ftp Software, Inc.
        2 High Street
        North Andover, MA 01845
        USA

Product          : PC/TCP

Current Version: 2.2

Pricing          : $400        - single copy
        $175/copy    - 20-49 copies
        $150/copy    - 50-99 copies
        $130/copy    - 100-499 copies
        $110/copy    - 500-999 copies
        $99/copy    - 1000 or more copies

Support          : Support & upgrade of multiple copy sites handled through
        maintenance contract
        Techincal support bulletin board: [phone]
        Internet FTP servers:
            ftp.com        - 3rd party applications
            vax.ftp.com    - Specifications, drivers,
                       newsletters, etc.

Systems          : MS-DOS 5.x, MS-Windows 3.x, OS/2 2.0

Services      : clients: NFS, telnet (vt 52,100,220), TN3270, ftp, ping,
             inet, email (POP2/3, PCmail, SMTP), finger, whois,
             nicname, setclock, host, bootp, rsh, rexec, rcp,
             tar, news, cookie, printing (LPR, LPQ, LPRM)
        servers for DOS/Windows: ftp, tftp, SNMP, SMTP
        servers for OS/2: ftp, tftp, SNMP, LPD, finger, bootp,
             inetd, DNS, mail, rexec, telnet

Size          : "standard" (4 NFS mounts, 6 TCP connections) = 125KB
        Using EMM = 26KB

Features      : many 3rd party applications use this as transport: network
        management tools, X-windows, databases, multimedia & imaging
        packages, etc.
        OS/2 version supports NDIS for SLIP, Ethernet & Token-Ring
        DOS version supports Packet Drivers, NDIS drivers, ASI
        drivers, ODI drivers for DIX & 802.3 Ethernet, Token-Ring,
        SLIP, PPP & X.25
        Also known to work for 802.7 (broadband/CATV), AX.25 (packet
        radio), FDDI, ISDN & possibly SMDS.
        Co-exists with Banyan Vines, LanManager, Windows for
        Workgroups, and Netware.
        RFC compliant NetBIOS interface
        PC/TCP BootPROMs available for Ethernet cards.

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Z-15.  Reflection Network Series : Walker Richer & Quinn

Company       :    Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc.

Contact          : -

Phone         :    [phone] [US]
        [phone] [Washington, US]
        [phone] [Europe]

FAX          : [phone]
        [phone] [Europe]

Email         :    -

Postal mail   : Walker, Richer & Quinn, Inc.
        2815 Eastlake Ave. East,
        Seattle, Washington 98102
        USA

        Buitenhof 47,
        2513 AH Den Haag,
        The Netherlands

Product          :

Current Version:

Pricing          :

Support          :

Systems          : DOS, MS-Windows 3.x & Macintosh

Services      : client: LAT, Telnet, NS/VT, FTP

Size          :

Features      : versatile command language
        Supports Ethernet,Token-Ring
        Supports NetBIOS & Berkeley Sockets.
        Option for Netware, LAN Manager, Banyan VINES
        Xwindows option coming soon.

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Z-16.  Super-TCP:Fontier Technologies Corp.

Company          : Frontier Technologies Corporation

Contact       : Debbie Ramirez

Phone         : [phone] ext. 210

FAX           : [phone]

Email         : [e-mail]

Postal mail   : Frontier Technologies Corporation
        10201 N. Port Washington Rd.
                Mequon,
        WI  53092
        USA

Product       : Super-TCP/NFS for Windows

Current Version: Version 3.00

Pricing       : List Price: $495.00 with NFS,
        $395.00 without NFS.
        NetBIOS option - $295
        LPD option - $395
        PPP option - $95
        ONC option - $695
        X.25 option - $2495  (hardware inc.)
        Developers toolkit - $695
        Site licenses available. (call)

Support       :  9am-6pm (EST), phone, email (Internet, Compuserve), bbs

Systems       : 286 & above w/ 2 MB RAM MS-Windows 3.x, MSDOS 3.3  above

Services      : Client: telnet (VT220, VT320, tn3270), nfs, ftp, tftp,
            lpr, talk, nntp, pop 2/3, smtp (MIME extensions), bootp
            rcp, rsh, rexec, ping
            Server: nfs, ftp, tftp, talk, smtp, snmp, modem, optional
            lpd

Size          : Takes only 3K DOS RAM. 5MB free hard disk space needed.

Features      : NDIS, ODI, ASI, PDS, SLIP, PPP (optional),  X.25
        (optional);
        100% DLL in Windows or TSR for DOS;
        Sun ONC RPC/XDR API; NetBIOS API; Windows Sockets API v1.1;
        Coexists with NetWare, LAN Manager, Banyan Vines, DCA 10Net,
        DECNET.
        VxD Virutal Driver
        Super-TCP has the first Windows Email with support for MIME
        binary file attachments.

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Z-17.     TCP/IP for DOS: IBM

Company       :    IBM

Contact          : Jeff Wheeler [Atlanta, US]

Phone         :    (800) IBM-CALL
        (800) IBM-3346

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    -

Postal mail   : IBM
        Dept. E15,
        P.O. Box 12195,
        Research Triangle Park,
        NC 27709
        USA

Product          : TCP/IP for DOS (Product # 02G7087)

Current Version: 2.1

Pricing          : ??

Support          : ??

Systems          : MS-DOS 5.x, MS-Windows 3.x

Services      : clients: telnet (vt100,vt220), TN3270, TFTP, FTP,
            NFS (optional),    REXEC, RSH, LPR, SMTP, POP 2/3
        servers: FTPD, LPD

Size          : ??

Features      : supports Ethernet, Token-Ring, packet drivers (shim), NDIS,
        SLIP
        Programmers Toolkit available (Product # 02G7088)
        NFS Kit available (Product # 02G7089)

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Z-19.  TCPOpen : Lanera Corporation

Company       :    Lanera Corporatopm

Contact          :

Phone         :    [phone]

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : Lanera Corp.
        516 Valley Way,
        Milpitas,
        CA 95035
        USA

Product          : TCPOpen

Current Version: ??

Pricing          :

Single-User License
===================

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Product                 Code            Software/Manuals        Manuals Only
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
TCPOpen/Kernel          TKER            $ 95.00                 $30.00
TCPOpen/Standard        TOPN            $145.00                 $40.00
TCPOpen/Plus            TPLU            $195.00                 $50.00
TCPOpen/SDK             TSDK            $295.00(see note)       $50.00
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TCPOpen/Standard: TCPOpen/Kernel + TCP/IP applications + Softerm
TCPOpen/Plus:     TCPOpen/Standard with NFS client module
TCPOpen/SDK:      TCPOpen/Standard with Software Development Kit

Quantity Discount
-----------------
15% for quantity of 2 to 5
20% for quantity of 5 to 10
25% for quantity of 20 or more (site license is recommended).

University Discount
-------------------
25% discount

Site License
============
A site license allows for a specified number of copies to be made of the
software and corresponding manual for use on any system owned by the
purchaser.  Only one copy of the software and the corresponding manual is
provided.  Additional copies of the manual can be separately ordered at the
price shown above.

Site license requires a purchase of an updates and support policy.

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   Quantity                         Per-User Pricing
                         Kernel         Standard        Plus
                         (TKER)          (TOPN)         (TPLU)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   10 - 49              $50.00          $70.00          $90.00
   50 - 99              $40.00          $60.00          $80.00
  100 - 499             $30.00          $50.00          $70.00
  500 - 999             $20.00          $40.00          $60.00
 1000+                  $20.00          $30.00          $50.00
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Site License Expansion
----------------------
An existing site license can be expanded at a later time.  The per-copy
cost of the additional license is based on the final total number of copies
at the time of expansion.


Support          :

Free 90-day telephone support and unlimited fax/Internet E-mail support
for all single-user licenses.  One-year update fee and unlimited telephone
support for single-user license is $100.00.

One year of unlimited telephone support and updates is at the cost of 20% of
the Site License purchase price.

Due to high cost of oversea support, International (single-user license)
users will receive direct support from local dealers/resellers unless the
purchase is made directly with Lanera or a support contract is purchased.
However, Internet E-mail support is always available to all users.


Systems          : DOS, MS-Windows 3.x

Services      :
  NFS client Module: NFS v2 implementation, up to 15 drives.
  TCP/IP: ftp client/server, TFTP client/server, telnet, rlogin, print
      utilities, r-utilities (rsh, rexec, etc), finger, whois, remote
      Tar, bootp
  Softerm: vt (52, 100-series, 220/240, 320/340), IBM 3101 < 10/20,
      IBM-ANSI, TN-3270, ANSI-terminal, kermit, Xmodem, Ymodem

Size          : kernel : 72 KB (RAM)

Features      : NDIS, Packet drivers, ODI drivers. SLIP
        co-existence with Netware, LAN Manager, Workgroups,
        Lantastic, Vines, InvisibleLAN
        TCPOpen/SDK with Windows Sockets API 1.1 DLL available.

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Z-20.  TTCP: Turbosoft Pte Ltd.

Company       :    Turbosoft Pte Ltd

Contact          : -

Phone         :    [phone] (Australia)

FAX          : -

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : Turbosoft
        248 Johnston St.,
        Annandale,
        NSW  2038
        Australia

Product          : TTCP

Current Version: 1.2r2

Pricing          :

Support          :

Systems          :

Services      :

Size          :

Features      : supports Ethernet, Token-Ring, packet drivers, NDIS (shim),
        ODI (shim)

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Z-21.  WATTCP : Erick Engelke

Company       :    -

Contact          : Erick Engelke

Phone         :    -

FAX          : -

Email         :    N/A

Postal mail   : N/A

Product          : WATTCP programming libraries
        WATTCP applications

Current Version: July 1993

Pricing          : free. FTP from:
          dorm.rutgers.edu: /pub/msdos/wattcp/{wattcp.zip,apps.zip}

        The WATTCP Programming Manual is priced as following:
        Visa/MC/AE/Cheque/Check/Money Order    US$40
          or Purchase Order            US$60
        + shipping/handling (US or Canada)    US$5
          or Airmail elsewhere            US$10

        Credit card sales can be made entirely by email.

Support          : none.

Systems          : MS-DOS w/ Packet Drivers

Services      : clients: telnet, TN3270, ftp, ping, bootp, finger, smtp
        servers: telnetd, ftpd, smtpd,

Size          : 30-55 KB

Features      : Separate programmers referrence is available. It was written
        by Erick Engelke (designer of WATTCP) and has many of the
        popular WATTCP applications. The manual provides a tutorial
        to programming under WATTCP with various related topics and
        a complete referrence section. To order the manual please
        mail:
                   WATTCP Programmers Manual
            c/o Supro Network Software, Inc.
            P.O. Box 18, Warsaw, Ontario
            Canada     KOL-3A0

            [phone]

        or email:
            [e-mail]

        Pricing is as above.

        NOTE: Supro cannot answer any questions about this software
        and the author does not provide the documentation. Please do
        not use the above email address for support questions.

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Z-22.  WinQVT/Net: QPC Software

Company       :    QPC Software

Contact          : -

Phone         :

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   :

Product          : WinQVT/Net

Current Version: 3.93

Pricing          : free

Support          : none

Systems          : MS-Windows 3.1

Services      : VT (52, 100, 220), POP mail client, newsreader, FTP, FTPD

Size          :

Features      : uses packet drivers only

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Z-X.  Fusion : Pacific Softworks

Company          :  Pacific Softworks

Contact       :  Sales

Phone         :  [phone]

FAX          :  [phone]

Email         :  [e-mail]
         [e-mail]

Postal mail   :    Pacific Softworks, Inc.
        4000 Via Pescador,
           Camarillo, CA 93012-5049

Product       : FUSION for DOS

Current Version: 3.4

Pricing      : Single prices
              TCP/IP                 $349.00
              TCP/IP w/IPX           $399.00
              IPX only               $149.00
              PDS option w/WINSOCK   $200.00
              PC-Xview & TN3270 also available

           Multiple pricing (right to copy), 5 copies to 1,000+
              PC/NFS         ranging from $250 - $90 each
              PDS/WINSOCK    ranging from $495 - $195 each
              PC-Xview & TN3270 also available

Support       : Tech. phone line  [phone], 90 days free tech. support
               Univ. discount 33%

Systems       : All AT-compatible PCs including 286, 386 and 486 systems
               with minimum 4 MB of free hard disk space.
               DOS 3.x-6.0, MS Windows 3.1

Services      : clients: FTP, Telnet (vt 220), rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd,
            ruptime, rwho, NFS Client
        servers: FTPD

Size          : 136 KB Conventional memory, can be loaded into Upper memory
                  for most system configuration
               4 MB hard disk space

Features      : NDIS support on the following Ethernet Boards
                3COM: 3C 501, 503, 505, 507, 509 and 523
                  Accton: EtherCoax-   8W EN1808, 8WB EN1818, NE2 EN1606
                                     16N EN1603, HP EN1620
                        EtherPocket- CX/10T
                        EtherPair-   8W EN1807, 8WB EN1817, NE2 EN1605
                                     16N EN1602, HP EN1619
                Cabletron: E2020-X
                   Digital: EtherWORKS LC DE100, Turbo DE200, MC DE210
                       DE100, DE200 with ROM chip
                  D-Link: DE-100, DE-200, DE-300
                Novell: NE 1000, NE 2000
                  Spider: Ethernet Card
                  Standard Micro: 8003, 8013
                  Western Digital: WD 8003E, 8003W/A, 8003E/A, 8013EBT,
                               WD 8003WT, WD8003ET/A, WD8013W
                  Xircom: Pocket Adapter PE108
            Direct Board Drivers for Western Digital WD8003
               Token Ring Boards supported: 3COM 3c603 Tokenlink
               IPX co-existence
               X Window terminal for DOS and MS Windows with PC-Xview
               DOS PDS (Programmer's Development System) with Microsoft
                  and Borland compilers
               Support of WINSOCK API with WINSOCK.DLL
               Highly portable source code available

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Z-25.  ICE.TCP    : James River Group

Company       :    James River Group, Inc.

Contact          : -

Phone         :    [phone]

FAX          :

Email         :    [e-mail]

Postal mail   : 125 N. First St.
        Minneapolis,
        MN 55401

Product          :

Current Version:

Pricing          :

Support          :

Systems          :

Services      : Telnet (Wyse60, ANSI), LPR, LPD

Size          :

Features      : works with Novell.

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Z-26.  Piper/IP        IPswitch, Inc.

Company       :    IPswitch, Inc.

Contact          : Bob MacFadgen

Phone         :    [phone]

FAX          : [phone]

Email         :    [e-mail]
        [e-mail]

Postal mail   : 333 North Ave.
        Wakefield
        MA 01880

Product          : Piper/IP for DOS & Windows,
        Vantage/IP for OS/2
        Catipult Netware-TCP/IP gateway

Current Version: 1.0, 1.0, & 1.3 (respectively)

Pricing          :

Piper/IP pricing
Part #        Description                Price
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
PIP-100        1 user TCP/IP DOS & Windows Pkg        $375
         & Piper/IP kernel
PIP-105        5 user   "                $1195
PIP-110        10 user "                $1995

PIP-200        1 user kernel only            $175
PIP-205        5 user kernel only            $745
PIP-210        10 user kernel only            $1225

PIP-310        Netbios option                $85
PIP-320        NFS client and server for kernel opt.    $99

Vantage/IP pricing
Part #        Description                Price
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
VAN-100        1 user kernel & apps for OS/2        $395
VAN-105        5 user   "                $1475
VAN-110        10 user  "                $2565

VAN-310        Netbios option                $95

Catipult line packages
Part #        Description                Price
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
CAT-100        30 user Netware-TCP/IP gateway        $2975
CAT-145        45 user   "                $4275
CAT-160        60 user   "                $5375

CAT-315        15 user upgrade for gateway         $1495
CAT-330        30 user    "                $2675

Site licensing
++++++++++++++
Users                 20-49   50-99   100-249   250-499   500-999   1,000+

PIP-Sxxx  (per user)  $170    $150    $125      $105      $95       $89
PIP-SKxxx (per user)  $87     $80     $69       $59       $54       $49
PIP-SBxxx (per user)  $43     $39     $34       $29       $26       $23
PIP-SFxxx (per user)  $49     $45     $39       $33       $30       $27
VAN-Sxxx  (per user)  $195    $175    $145      $120      $108      $99
VAN-SBxxx (per user)  $50     $45     $39       $33       $30       $26

[xxx = kernel + apps; Kxxx = kernel only; Bxxx = Netbios option; F = NFS option]

Pricing for additional copies for a site license is based on the aggregate
number of copies in the site license. The 12% annual support fee is prorated
so that support for all copies ends at the same time.

Developers Kit
--------------
IPS-200        Ipswitch developers kit w/ berkeley sockets for      $475
        Catipult, Vantage & Piper/IP. MS-C/C++ or Borland

Support          : call.

Systems          : Piper/IP: 80x86, 1.5 MB, DOS 3.1
        Vantage/IP: any OS/2 capable system, 4MB (OS/2 1.x) 8MB(OS/2
        2.x) & OS/2 1.x or 2.x.

Services      : Piper/IP: rlogin, telnet (vt102), tn3270, lpq,lpr,lprm,
        rexec, rsh, rcp, ftp, tftp, pipernb &upipernb (netbios),
        [chmod, ls, nfsmount, pnfs/upnfs, xomap] (NFS), ntpr,
        ntprint, mt, rtpcp, tar, finger, whois, red (news), catmail,
        pcmailer, fingerd, ftpd, nfsd, rexecd, routed, rshd, snmpd,
        telnetd, tftpd, arp, ifconig, setclock, route, netstat,
        nslookup, pink, tracetoute, ripquery, snmpd

        Vantage/IP: all the above + talk, otalk, mail, reposito,
        popper

        Note: NFS client and server are part of Vantage/IP and a
        separate option for Piper/IP.

Size          : 6K in DOS (rest loadable high)

Features      : works with Netware, LAN Manager, LAN Server, VINES.
        one of the most complete list of applications I've seen.


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