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From: MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re^2: What I'd like to see in the AppleShare of the 90's
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Date: 16 Jan 90 01:52:31 GMT
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dmr@csli.Stanford.EDU (Daniel M. Rosenberg) writes:
 
>Right now, if I kick out the LocalTalk connector to my Mac, nothing
>happens. I can do it for a pretty long period of time, too
 
Yes, but did you have an AppleShare volume mounted?
 
>When the *server* goes down, however, it crashes immediately, no
>chance for recovery. I am not sure that anything really *can* happen
>at that point -- if that Mac has failed, your work is lost, as if
>your Mac had failed. Isn't that true?
 
No, you should still be able to save your current work to a local
volume, be it floppy or hard disk. All that's happened is the
disappearance of the volume that you were saving to previously. MacDTS
tells everyone to put all their temp and prefs files on a local volume
for precisely this reason.
 
Stephan Somogyi
NetWorkShop Manager
MacUser