From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 9 20:13:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailext03.compaq.com (mailext03.compaq.com [207.18.199.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3790E14F47 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 20:13:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: by mailext03.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id D768D15200A; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:13:22 -0600 (CST) Received: from mailint11.im.hou.compaq.com (mailint11.compaq.com [207.18.199.189]) by mailext03.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2BB5148506; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:13:22 -0600 (CST) Received: by mailint11.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 8266255F0B; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:13:15 -0600 (CST) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (unknown [16.158.59.135]) by mailint11.im.hou.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196B252D01; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:13:14 -0600 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA00596; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 12:14:34 +0800 (SGT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 12:14:34 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Nicolas Blais Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Banyan Vines Message-ID: <20000109121434.F402@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <20000108182322.94853.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000108182322.94853.qmail@hotmail.com>; from nicblais@hotmail.com on Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:23:22PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 8 January 2000 at 13:23:22 -0500, Nicolas Blais wrote: > Hi, my name is Nicolas Blais and I work as Network Administrator for the > 430th Helicopter Squadron at the Canadian Forces. We currently use Banyan > Vines for all our Network needs but we would like to change it to FreeBSD as > we where impressed of its power and specially its price. > Unfortunately, we can't install FreeBSD as there is no easy way to transfer > data from BV to FreeBSD since FreeBSD can't connect to the BV network. > > I'm wondering if there is a way to connect to it and if not, I'm wondering > if FreeBSD will be able in the future. As far as I know, we don't support Vines. If we do in the future, it will be because somebody like you finds it important enough to either write the necessary code or fund its writing. My personal opinion is that Vines has has its day and that it's time to move on. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message