From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 22:37:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA03772 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:37:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA03767 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:37:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA12203; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:37:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:37:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "J.C. Archambeau" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPX Support? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, J.C. Archambeau wrote: > I apologize for not defining my needs more clearly. I've been essentially > off the internet for about 5 years after moving here from San Diego and > didn't subscribe to an ISP until recently. It's basically like stepping > out of a time capsule. A lot has changed online since I was off the > internet back in '91. You can say that again! > I stated Novell compatability since it is what I am familiar with and the > fact that commercial MS-DOS/Windows applications work in a Novell > network environment without much of a hassle. The only other alternative > without doing some research to my knowledge is PCNFS but I don't know if a > freeware version is available at this time. Doubtful since I haven't > seen anything on usenet regarding a freeware PCNFS. There is a PCNFS called XFS that doesn't work the best but does work. However Windows Networking and Novell are better implementations. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major