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From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Desktop Manager INIT patch?
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Date: 16 Jun 89 11:53:24 GMT
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> I'm quite interested in using Desktop Manager, and some of
> the other Mac users here have started using it on their non-server Macs.
> I know when System 7.0 appears that it will have this feature, but I'm
> not sure that some of the users here can wait that long... :-)

I was keen on using Desktop Manager, but when I installed it and tried
to attach a network volume, the system complained that it couldn't create
a desktop file for this volume because it was locked. All our public
volumes are locked, for obvious reasons. So for me, Desktop manager
was useless because we weren't using it our server (and couldn't for
reasons which I won't go into). I did try it on my SE at home which has
an 80M Jasmine (not a YABJ yet), but I couldn't see that significant a speedup.
The desktop updating was faster, but not as much as I was hoping it would
be. In other words, it still seemed much too slow.

-- 
Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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