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- From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Novell bought USL?
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <725603823snx@crynwr.com>
- References: <PCG.92Dec27232149@decb.aber.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 04:37:03 GMT
- Organization: Crynwr Software
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- In article <PCG.92Dec27232149@decb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk writes:
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- It is a little known fact that MSDOS's remote file system interface, the
- "redirector", is a trade secret of Microsoft, and is not publicly
- documented. Microsoft only licenses the "redirector" interface specs to
- whom they want and at their conditions.
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- Novell has gone to some length to avoid using the redirector interface
- in their NetWare clients.
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- NetWare Lite uses the redirector. But I've always thought that
- Novell bought NetWare Lite from someone.
-
- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
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