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IBM lists prod # 5765-024 as AIX ACCESS FOR DOS USERS V 2.1

I read through the announcement notes on this product and am still
confused about it. Does this product need to work concurrently with
DOS SERVER? Is AADU basiclly a terminal emulation package like
XTALK? The notes mention using virtual disks with AADU, and storing
DOS files on the AIX operating system, how is this done?

I know DOS SERVER comes with the AIX 3 base operating system, but
is separately installed. If DOS SERVER does not work concurrently
with AADU, what does it do?

I need any info that would help me understand what DOS SERVER and
AIX ACCESS FOR DOS USERS for AIX 3 is!!

Thanks in advance!

-Bryan
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Each such connected PC must have its very own copy of the "AIX ACCESS
FOR DOS USERS" program or never run at the same time. A protection
mechanism is built in to disable concurrent usage of copies of the same
program diskettes.

The DOS ACCESS provides a vt100 emulator that can be used to log in the
AIX system as a regular vt100 terminal user but it also provides the
user with the possibility of seeing the AIX filesystems as DOS drives
with filename conversions ala "PC NFS" (remember, AIX filenames can be
longer and contain characters that are not possible on the PC). These
files can be accessed by DOS as any normal DOS files except the
END_OF_LINE format problem (CRLF <-> LF).

DOS ACCESS and DOS SERVER can connect either thru serial lines or
Ethernet connection (Serial line looks like an NFS at 9600 bds but
is workable). I personally tried the serial connection and mainly used
it as a file transfer utility (copy A:xxxxxx.yyy e:) which is a lot
easier than any other way, isn't it ?

As far as I can remember, there are some remote printing and remote
processing possible (but I might be mixing with DOS MERGE).

Francis Demierre

BTW: the same things exist for AIX on PS2.

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Hope this helps,        
Richard Mayson  

If you only want NFS mounted filesystems, look at PC-NFS from FTP
Software. I have been able to mount filesystems to a MAC, so I
suppose a generic DOS machine shouldn't be too much trouble :-}

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