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Re: Linux on Novell Network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thayne Harbaugh)
Sat Jun 1 12:53:20 1996
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 10:42:27 -0600
From: Thayne_Harbaugh@lardav.com (Thayne Harbaugh)
To: sboland@texas.net
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
> From sboland@texas.net Fri May 31 19:21:48 1996
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> To: David C Niemi <niemi@wauug.erols.com>
> CC: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Linux on Novell Network
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> > It is also quite practical to run the cc:Mail DOS client under DOSEMU. The
> > cc:Mail import and export utilities also run, subject to networking,
> > though I did have some occasional crashes (of DOSEMU, never of Linux
> > itself).
>
> I run cc:Mail under DOSEMU all the time here, and the only problems I have
> seen came from the Novell IPX services. The server keeps dropping the
> connection when it doesn't see any traffic for long periods through DOSEMU
> (which was used to log in to begin with)
>
> -- Scott B
>
There is a fix for DOSEMU dropping the IPX connection. I believe the program
is called wdogfix and can be found at an FTP site near you in one of the
DOSEMU sub-directories. Just run wdogfix.exe under DOSEMU when you start it up.
Thayne Harbaugh
