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From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt )
Subject: Re: translucent file service
Message-ID: <1993Mar24.131209.18915@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
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Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 13:12:09 GMT
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In article <1ol14nINNmkq@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> jon@umcc.umcc.umich.edu (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>Has anyone looked into adding tfs (translucent file service)?
>[...]  If been told that implementing it is not particularily 
>complex.  

By all means please go ahead and implement it.  I would love to have tfs for
386bsd.  As far as I know, tfs is proprietary to Sun and only available for
Sun machines.  Is this true?  Does Sun make available the source code upon
request?  I would assume that there are licensing fees to be paid ...

Thanks -- Volker

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