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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to OS/2 and Windows NT Date: 16 Nov 1993 01:20:35 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 31 Message-ID: <2c99t3$3o7@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <pcbsdCGE4oI.5zw@netcom.com> <2c22ac$fob@u.cc.utah.edu> <PCG.93Nov14215914@frontb.aber.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <PCG.93Nov14215914@frontb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: >Terry> Actually, hosted OS projects are quite common; several examples: > >Terry> [ ... ] >Terry> o NetWare on OS/2 >Terry> o NetWare on UNIX (NetWare for UNIX -- NWU) > >Well, this does not amount to porting NetWare, the OS; it is rather >supplying under OS/2 and UNIX the IPX protocol stack and daemons that >use the services defined by it. As far as I know you cannot run NetWare >binaries or compile NetWare sources if you have NetWare under OS/2 or >Unix; the Netware implementation is native. Depends on what you mean by this: Do you mean NLMs? If so, it's relatively useless to run, say, the NFS NLM, on a NetWare for UNIX platform. UNIX already has NFS. If "compile NetWare sources" means you don't have API's for client code under UNIX, then you are wrong. There's also NUC, the "NetWare UNIX Client", which is a VFS implementation of the NetWAre requester; it lets you mount exported volumes from a Native or NWU server as if they were exported UNIX file systems from another UNIX box. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.