Hello Nicholas!
On Tue 27 Jan 1998 at 19:57 you wrote the following to Mike Bilow:
 MB>> TCP/IP.  The mars_nwe package emulates a Novell NetWare 3.x
 MB>> server. Both are freeware.
 NC> That's interesting.  I'll have to do some downloading.
I'd wait until you get the distribution - many will include these packages...
 MB>> trouble.  You can use non-standard IRQs and even share IRQs
 MB>> across ports (if your hardware allows this) quite easily, using
 MB>> the "setserial" utility.
 NC> Woa!  I never knew that an IRQ could be shared.  This would be quite
 NC> useful. What sort of hardware supports this?
"Standard" PC IRQ numbering was Com1 and Com3 to IRQ 4, and Com2 and Com4 on 
IRQ 3.
 MB>> interest is in building a network server, Red Hat or Caldera is
 MB>> probably the best choice.
 NC> Ca either of these be installed over DOS 6.22.  I as because it's be
 NC> much easier to setup MS DOS lan client than playing with millions of
 NC> disks, or transfering a CD-ROM drive.
They can be network installed...but only if you have an nfs server in general 
(although some might support ftp)
This is Unix, it doesn't by default support featureless protocols designed 
for low powered DOS machines... ;-)
 Will                                        
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