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From: borton@fwi.uva.nl (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Projector
Keywords: Projector, IIci, don't work
Message-ID: <280@fwi.uva.nl>
Date: 8 Dec 89 12:39:57 GMT
References: <1989Dec6.035906.370@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <37055@apple.Apple.COM>
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keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:

>In article <1989Dec6.035906.370@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> tdrinkar@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu.UUCP (Terrell Drinkard) writes:
...
>>So.  Is there some irreparable conflict between the IIci, system
>>6.0.4 or my University with Projector?  Is there a fix?

>There is no problem that I've heard of from any of our developers,and I haven't
>experienced any problems myself. If you could be more specific, perhaps we 
>could narrow down the problem to something else. In projector's case, it could
>easily be the case that you aren't holding your mouth right...

I might mention a problem we have been experiencing at work for several
months now, and finally last week got Apple Holland to forward a question
about it to DTS.

We had very bizarre behaviour using Projector over EtherTalk 1.2 on
AppleShare 2.0 servers.  Most of the time things would work OK.  BUT, at a
rate that we could not find any factor for despite trying a lot, it would
sometimes lose characters when checking out.  That is, we would do a 
checkin and checkout right after each other (yes, I know about checkin -m)
and the resulting file would be missing characters.  Often entire sections.
The version on the server would sometimes be missing them too.

Using a different AppleShare disk resulted in _different_ behaviour, but it
still went wrong sometimes.  Using LocalTalk, however, had NO problems.
This effect happened far more frequently on a IIcx than a II, but I
peronally have doubts about that making a difference.

Worse, this happened far more frequently in one room/project, while people in
the other room (different project, same server & network) had no problems.  

There are so many variables in this it's difficult to start tracing it down.

-cbb

Disclaimer: I would never speak for KPMG Klynveld even if offered the chance.
Chris Borton	borton@fwi.uva.nl
Mac Developer & AppleTalk Network Administrator, University of Amsterdam CS