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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:59:42 -400
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         "(Keith Brown)" <keith@NOVELL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Desperate for help with UNIX & Novell

In article <01GODR94B1E80001LG@UNCA.BITNET> you write:
>
>We have a RISC 6000 on an Ethernet network.  We have a UNIX application on the
>RISC that we want to print from, to our Novell queues !  How can we do this ?


The solution is very straight forward. Here it is...

Regards,
Keith
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Novell Announces NetWare FLeX/IP

Cost Effective TCP/IP Services for UNIX Connectivity

SAN JOSE, California -- May 11, 1992 -- Novell, Inc. today
announced NetWare FLeX/IP, a product that meets the need of
users to share printers cost effectively across  NetWare and
UNIX environments.  In addition to its full-featured,
bidirectional print gateway, NetWare FLeX/IP also provides
FTP file transfer services and an X Window System console
utility for remote NetWare server management.

_"This product has actually been defined by customers who
have benefited from integrating their NetWare and UNIX file
systems through NetWare NFS, and are now asking for a
cost-effective way to integrate their NetWare and UNIX
printers over large numbers of servers throughout their
organizations," said Bob Davis, director of marketing for
Novell's UNIX connectivity products.  "We believe that by
expanding the range of products addressing mixed UNIX and
NetWare environments, Novell will facilitate the growth of
enterprise networks based on these technologies."

Implemented as a set of NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs)
loaded on a NetWare server, NetWare FLeX/IP requires no
additional software on the UNIX systems.  It allows UNIX
users to access NetWare resources from their native UNIX
environment.

Bidirectional Print Gateway

The bidirectional print gateway allows UNIX users to access
printers attached to NetWare systems and NetWare users to
access printers that are attached to UNIX systems.   NetWare
users are able to use standard NetWare print utilities to
access the printer on the UNIX systems.  The UNIX printer
will appear to the user as a normal NetWare print queue,
while the NetWare queues will appear as UNIX print queues to
the UNIX user.  In addition, the UNIX print filter mechanism
is supported enabling print jobs to be preprocessed before
submission to the printer device.

FTP Server

The high-performance FTP server allows UNIX users to transfer
files to and from NetWare v3.11 servers on the network.  It
also enables FTP clients to use the NetWare v3.11 server as
an FTP gateway to access any other NetWare server on the
network, including those that do not support TCP/IP.  The FTP
server provides full support of both UNIX/NFS and DOS name
spaces.  Users can choose their preferred view of the file
system and toggle this view at will.

Remote X Console

The X11 remote console allows network administrators to manage
NetWare v3.11 servers from any  X Window System.  The XCONSOLE
is a NetWare Loadable Module that displays NetWare v3.11
console screens using X Windows on a remote UNIX workstation.
The UNIX administrator benefits by having the ability to
install, configure and troubleshoot  NetWare v3.11 servers
using their native UNIX-based graphical user interface.  The
XCONSOLE provides additional management functionality by
allowing multiple NetWare management screens to be displayed
at one time from multiple NetWare servers.

Pricing and Availability

NetWare FLeX/IP will begin shipping by the end of May.  It will
be priced at $1,995.  NetWare FLeX/IP will be available through
certified Novell Gold and Platinum resellers.

Novell Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) is an operating system software
company, the developer of network services, specialized and
general purpose operating system software products including
NetWare, DR DOS, DR Multiuser DOS and FlexOS.  Novell's NetWare
network computing products manage and control the sharing of
services, data and applications among computer workgroups,
departmental networks and business-wide information systems.


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Keith Brown                                           Phone: 408-473-8308
Novell San Jose Development Center                      Fax: 408-473-8990
2180 Fortune Drive, San Jose, CA 95131                  Net: keith@novell.COM
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