OpenVMS Hobbiest CD

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sun Feb 8 19:37:59 1998

>Umm - OS? Command? Error message? It's hard to diagnose a problem
>like this without this sort of information!

He was trying it on his Solaris Box I believe. No idea what errors he was
getting though, I gathered it just plain didn't see it.

>NFS on Linux simply doesn't support the wide range of filetypes available
>under traditional minicomputer OS's like VMS and RSX, so even if you could
>read access CD's files you'd still be screwed. NFS works fine for flat files,
>but just try moving an indexed file using NFS sometime and watch all the
>indexing disappear! The only way to preserve this information when passing
>through brain-dead Unix-type filesystems is to do it through container
>files.

Since you can now add support for the VMS filesystem to Linux, I was hoping
that it would be able to then share the files via NFS to a VMS machine. Of
course I have no idea how full-featured the VMS support under Linux is. I
know using netatalk, I'm able to use my Linux server as a Appletalk server
(with their resource forks Mac files are touchy).

                        Zane



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