North Carolina System Administrators meeting -- 1/13/97 -- WebNFS

["Amy K. Kreiling" <kreiling@cs.unc.edu>]

The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators & Managers 
organization (NC*SA) will be Monday, January 13, 1997, at 6pm.  Details 
about the meeting, our technical program and directions to our meeting 
location are provided in this note.  We hope to see you there!!


                             North Carolina 
                  System Administration Interest Group

                                WebNFS 
                    Rex Walters, Auspex Systems Inc. 

                        Monday, January 13, 1997
                       Research Triangle Institute
                          Dreyfus Auditorium 
                       Research Triangle Park, NC 
                          
                       6 PM - General Session


ABSTRACT

    WebNFS represents an alternative to the HTTP and FTP protocols for
    downloading files in Web browser based applications.  Estimates of
    two to ten-fold performance increases have been made for WebNFS.
    WebNFS was originally developed by SunSoft, and is supported by
    Auspex, Spyglass, Oracle, IBM, Sequent, and most recently Netscape.
    recently Netscape.

BIO

    Rex Walters is a Consulting Systems Engineer for Auspex Systems,
    Inc. in Cary, North Carolina, where he acts as a technical
    consultant for Auspex customers and prospects in the southeast.
    Rex is currently investigating data delivery in internet/intranet
    environments.

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Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic of
the evening.  We will be providing food and drink for the evening. If you 
have any questions please contact:

  Amy K. Kreiling          
  SAS Institute Inc. 
  SAS Campus Drive 
  Cary, NC  27513  
  (919) 677-8000 x5963 
  kreiling@unx.sas.com

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Directions to Research Triangle Institute

    From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill):

	Get onto I-40 heading east.  Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham
	Freeway - North (towards Durham).  Stay in right lane.  Shift
	right as soon as possible after merging with traffic coming off
	I-40 westbound.  Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis
	Road).  At top of exit, turn to the left.  (If you turn right and
	cross over the bridge, you are going the wrong direction.)  After
	turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right
	lane.  Take the second right onto East Institute Drive.
	Take the second right off of East Institute Drive.  Dreyfus 
	Laboratory will be the first building on your right.  Use
	the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main
	entrance. 

   From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh):

	Get onto I-40 heading west.  Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham
	Freeway - North (towards Durham).  Shift to rightmost lane
	as soon as possible  Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis
	Road).  At top of exit, turn to the left.  (If you turn right and
	cross over the bridge, you are going the wrong direction.)  After
	turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right
	lane.  Take the second right onto East Institute Drive.
	Take the second right off of East Institute Drive.  Dreyfus 
	Laboratory will be the first building on your right.  Use
	the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main
	entrance. 

   From north of RTP (e.g. Durham):

	Get onto NC-147 - Durham Freeway - south.  Exit at the Cornwallis
	Road exit.  At the top of the exit, turn left to cross over the
	bridge.   After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately
	to the right lane.  Take the second right onto East Institute Drive.
	Take the second right off of East Institute Drive.  Dreyfus 
	Laboratory will be the first building on your right.  Use
	the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main
	entrance.