| Connecting to UNIX or VMS machines usually
means having TCP/IP support on your DOS machine for your ethernet
network. One of the best ways to achieve this is to use Windows for
Workgroups 3.11 and get a copy of Microsoft TCP/IP-32 driver, which
can be installed in windows and co-exist with the other network
protocols. This provides the basic pathway from your machine to the
mainframe and communications can be tested using the supplied
utility called PING. PING allows you to bounce packets off another
machine (or your own) and will give you information about the time
taken. This can be used to verify that the TCP/IP layer is
communicating to another machine at this level.
The next step is to find a package that supports NFS (or Network
File System) under DOS. There are several versions of NFS, so you
should get exact details about the NFS your mainframe runs before
deciding on a package. There are several packages available which
allow you to mount and unmount NFS network drives on a DOS system,
and some which are totally integrated with Windows for
Workgroups.
Once the NFS is set up, the drive can be used as you would a
normal network drive, and operation of the NFS should be almost
transparent to Citect.
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