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- FYI #052890rl
-
- Question:
- With NetWare 386 v3.1 on the horizon, I started wondering about
- some of the features that 3.1 will offer end-users. I took a
- look at the NetWare 386 Technical Overview over the weekend and
- it started me wondering which of the pre-announced features will
- be in 3.1. Here is a list of the features as presented in the
- Technical Overview. If you know if they will or will not make it
- into 3.1 I would appreciate your input.
-
- Extended File System (WORMs & CD ROMs)
- Backup NLM
- Network Management Reporters and Agents
- Open NLM C APIs
- Interprocess Communications (IPC) APIs
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC) APIs
- Extended File System Interface
- NetWare Streams
- IPX/SPX Streams Protocol Stack
- AFP File and Print Services NLM *
- Appletalk Streams Protocol Stack *
- NetBIOS
- Named Pipes
- Transport Level Interface (TLI)
- NFS NLM *
- TCP/IP Streams Protocol Stack *
- Mirrored Servers *
- Novell NL1000 Support
- Novell NL/2 Support
- The items followed by an * are NOT going to be in 3.1. But what
- about the others? Is everything else going to make it (my
- understanding is that all of the development platforms will be
- implemented, i.e., IPC APIs, Streams, Named Pipes, NetBIOS,
- etc.)?
-
- Is there anything that will be in 3.1 that wasn't mentioned
- above?
-
- Answer:
- All things are subject to change but here are a few things
- that I believe will not make it into 3.1.
-
- Extended File System
- Named Pipes
-
- As you already know the add-on protocols are just that, separate
- and purchasable products. AFP, NFS, etc. It was not decided
- from my last information if a limited TCP/IP stack was going to
- be included or a separate product. There of course WILL be a
- full TCP stack shipped with the NFS product.
-
- Keep in mind that it is important to make sure 3.1 and its API's
- are stable and bug free before we start shipping things like NFS,
- and Appletalk. So it would not be unreasonable to assume 3.1 will
- ship without everything available day one. One last word of
- advise. Don't believe everything you read in the technical
- overview. All of those capabilities will take time and
- resources.
-
- Randy Littleson - Tech Support, Detroit
- Lee Love - Marketing, Herndon
-