Advice/CDROM/LAN/TCP/IP
We want to make fed gov info on DOS CD's available to networked DOS/Windows
machines using PC/TCP(by FTP Software), dumb terminals connected to the LAN via
dial-in or terminal server(they're still dumb however they connect), and to
Macs that can telnet in like the terminals. There are some CD's available for
Macs and we would like to make these available directly for our Macs(these
would be duplicates of the more popular DOS CD's).
My scheme is to find CD drives that will attach to a Unix box that has a DOS
emulator. My theory is that if I can get a CD to mount as a Unix file system
and that Unix is equiped with an NFS service as well as a DOS emulator then my
pc's can remotely mount the CD's as local logical drives and execute the DOS
search programs that come on these CD's. Also the terminals logged into this
Unix machine can invoke the DOS emulator and also run these DOS search programs
on these CD's.
Any comments? emulator. My theory is that if I can get a CD to mount as a Unix
file system and that Unix is equiped with an NFS service as well as a DOS
emulator then my pc's can remotely mount the CD's as local logical drives and
execute the DOS search programs that come on these CD's. Also the terminals
logged into this Unix machine can invoke the DOS emulator and also run these
DOS search programs on these CD's.
Any comments?