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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DNet performance (was:
Message-ID: <629@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 9 Jul 89 22:30:00 GMT
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To: van-bc!rnews

>Larry, since you are running at 9600 baud, have you tried Dnet-nfs?

No, I haven't. In looking at the files I have, I see only a few references to
it. One was a comment by Matt about it, and contained a '(heh heh, just kidding
:-))'. The other was from you, wishing you had it. :-)

I would definitely like to play around with it though, especially if it allows
me to do something resembling rpc.

>Much nicer than getfiles/putfiles, IMHO.  You can edit your files with
>an Amiga editor from the mounted Sun directory.  At 9600 baud, if the
>files aren't too large, it works pretty good. No need for getfiles or
>putfiles. In fact, I hardly ever use getfiles/putfiles anymore. On the
>other hand, if you are moving about between files, then this isn't such
>a good idea. Better to go back to an fterm.

The setup I have right now is pretty good. I had to make a bunch of empty files
in the Amiga end and use 'touch' on them to fool the makefile into having some
dependencies to work on, but when I type 'make', the directorty on the Sun is
automatically (and quite quickly) updated.

>  Dnet-nfs isn't fully
>implemented yet, and doesn't behave properly with some software. I can
>do loads & saves from the Manx 'Z' editor very nicely, but
>ProWrite/ProScript won't get or save files. :-(

Hmm... if it works with CEDPro, I'd love it. No doubt about it.

-larry

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