On Feb 05, 1996 at 07:09, Alan L Mouat of 3:711/934.28 wrote:

 ALM> Sounds good.  Where can I get it?

Sorry for the delay - your message got buried.  ;-)  I'll see if I can
source those things for you and upload 'em to TML.

 ALM> AFAIK NFS = no fucking smiley.  ie you lost me there.

NFS technically stands for "Network File System", but I generally
refer to it more accurately as "No File is Sacred".  ;-)  It's
the de facto UNIX standard for making drives/directories available remotely
across a LAN;  using this, you'd have the remote drive appear at some mount
point in your own system (ie., another drive letter or a directory
somewhere) and you could then copy/delete/rename/whatever on the remote box
as though the drive was actually local.

 ALM> Anyway whats wrong with FTP?

Try automating a procedure for completely hands-free backup of multiple
files and directories using most FTP clients - it's not the protocol that's
at fault, it's just that most clients just aren't built for this sort of
thing.

 ALM> The client is my laptop DOS & WFW 3.11.  The server is one of our alphas
 ALM> with open vms using one of Digitals offerings.  The network is just our
 ALM> office ethernet.  

OpenVMS .. yuck!  In any case, see if the SAMBA package (works with UNIX,
dunno 'bout OpenVMS) will work for you - then you could use WFW's normal
SMB-based directory exporting/mounting facilities to share directories
between two machines.

Lemme guess, you don't have access to SAMBA either, right?  ;-)

Cheers..

    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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