CompuServe Thread

#DNet Manual

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#50470From: Kelly JordanMay 26, 1989 9:10 AM
Somebody said they were going to upload the manual to DNet. Can that person please get it up real soon. I don't want to download the source file just for the manual! 73, Kelly
#50562From: Claude OrtegaMay 26, 1989 8:02 PM
Kelly, (and ALL), I'll u/l a file tonight. (DNETDC.ARC) It has the DOC files from release 2.02 of DNET. –Claude
#50651From: Kelly JordanMay 27, 1989 7:57 AM
Claude – 2.02! The version up here is 2.01. What is the difference between the two versions? Actually, I don't need the doc files now! Yesterday I actually received my V1I6 disk from TransAmi!! But for all the others on here, thank you for the upload. 73, Kelly
#50691From: Claude OrtegaMay 27, 1989 3:43 PM
Kelly, It probably is 2.01.03.. I got it from ucbvax on 4-13-89. It has the dbbs modules and password support. BTW. Matt Dillon posted a message on UseNet that his Dnet/Un*x net.server was available on ucbvax. It is a preliminary, 'buggy', NFS server. I e-mail'ed him a comment about the amiga/Dnet/net.server from Software Distillery, and his reply was that he was aware of it, but that it was 'different'. I guess that it doesn't fit in with his plans for Dnet. (not quite NFS). Still, it seems to work. –Claude
#50737From: Michael St. LaurentMay 27, 1989 10:05 PM
Is there any way to use DNET to network with an IBM or other system? Michael St. Laurent
#50842From: Claude OrtegaMay 28, 1989 5:30 PM
Michael, Dnet was written to connect UN*X BSD4.3 boxes to an Amiga. As it is a symmetrical system, (the same programs are used on both systems), it works for two Amigas also. I beleive that it has been run on a SYS-V (AT&T) box, and on a Ultrix (DEC) system also. It is written in 'C', so, if the IBM has the 'hooks' in its OS, it may be possible to get it to work. I don't know. –Claude
#51115From: Paul WhittemoreMay 29, 1989 9:12 PM
Sorry, I still catching up on DNET. Do you mean Matt has (or is working on) a software set that will allow an Amiga to appear to a Unix net as aother NFS machine (through the serial port?)? Does it require software on the Unix end? (It sounds like it runs on top of DNET and so I would assume it requires some handler on the Unix end…) Paul "This has GOT to be the last compile…" Whittemore [72007,3305]
#51270From: Claude OrtegaMay 30, 1989 8:30 PM
Paul, the DNET-NFS handler is a DNET module. You must have DNET running on the UN*X system. It is an 'Alpha' release, and is very buggy, but others are working on it. –Claude
#50646From: Kelly JordanMay 27, 1989 6:32 AM
Well, if anybody read that message, my urgency for the dnet manuals has finally been solved – the long awaited V1I6 TransAmi disk finally showed up friday! The version of DNet on the disk is V2.00, so what we have up here is slightly newer (V2.01), but the big difference is the smaller code size for the executables in the DNet file up here. 73, Kelly