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From: ceharris@mal.com (Carl Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mount a NetWare volume in NetBSD?
Date: 14 Dec 1995 10:54:03 GMT
Organization: Maladjusted Communications
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In article <4a627t$5gu@atlas.uniserve.com>, tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) writes:
: The hard part is the Netware core protocol. Those who
: understand it, can't tell anyone becuase it is protected by
: non-disclosure.
:
: Netware will not be supported unless:
:
: - hell freezes over, and Novell releases the specs, or
: - someone reverse enginneers it (which is a bit difficult)
- or Novell sees dollar signs (i.e. begins to perceive the free-u*ix-
on-PCs as a lucrative market), and makes a port of their UnixWare
package available for FreeBSD, Linux, and/or NetBSD. If IPX support
is already in the kernel, the rest of the porting task shouldn't be
so bad. I believe that if enough people were interested, and those
people began calling Novell's marketing people asking when a port to
FreeBSD/Linux/NetBSD was going to be available, we'd see UnixWare for
free u*ix before too long.
--
Carl Harris
EXECUTIVE Scapegoat
ceharris@mal.com
http://www.mal.com/~ceharris