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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 21:23:56 -0700
Organization: Me
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References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <318851BF.4E8724A7@gramercy.ios.com> <4mb38b$680@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> <3189C111.34823E07@gramercy.ios.com> <4md1ib$44@solaria.cc.gatech.edu>
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Byron A Jeff wrote:
[ ... ]
] Um. I don't think that either netbios or Novell are free
] standards. Yet there is support for both under Linux.
There is *partial* support for *some* commonly used NCP's
under Linux.
NetBIOS is a publically documented interface specification; see
RFC1001 & RFC1002.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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