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From: jln@accuvax.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: PublicFolder1.0
Message-ID: <1564@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 89 17:13:07 GMT
References: <1192@srhqla.SR.COM> <20463@mimsy.umd.edu> <124078@felix.UUCP> <10655@claris.com> <4096@phri.UUCP> <11390@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <4106@phri.UUCP>
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In article <4106@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>In article <4096@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>> If there are other PF's on the net, you only see them and can't see your own.
>
>	Um, I guess I didn't have my brain fully engaged.  I could have
>sworn that was what happend, but now I can't seem to reproduce it.  When I
>run PF now, I see my own along with the others.  Oh well.

There's an explanation for why this happens some of the time but not all
of the time.  AppleTalk has a "selfsend" flag that permits nodes to send
themselves messages.  This is a global flag that affects all applications
running at the node.  Public Folder turns this flag on so that you can
see yourself in the Chooser and fetch your own files.  Other AppleTalk
applications, however, might turn the flag off, because they may not be
prepared to talk to themselves.  So it all depends on who set the flag last.

John Norstad       Northwestern University      jln@acns.nwu.edu