Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!unido!pcsbst!jkh From: jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Fishy problems: DNET and CAR anim Message-ID: Date: 29 Aug 90 10:37:49 GMT Sender: news@pcsbst.pcs.com Organization: PCS Computer Systems, GmbH Lines: 48 I just grabbed the "Car" animation off of fish disk 123 and unpacked it. I have 2.3 megabytes of memory. However, no matter how much memory I try to keep free (coming up with vanilla workbench, nothing running in background), ShowANIM always says "not enough memory for bitmaps". The DOC says you need only a megabyte. What gives? I also finally got ahold of the DNET binaries and am having the following problems: 1. I ported the UNIX side to SYSV.3 (some of the tty specific code had to be changed, but nothing too complicated). 2. I installed the amiga binaries as DNET:amiga/bin 3. I start dnet on both sides, assuming 8 bits no parity. Original window goes away, fterm comes up, all is hunky dory. Sort of. The first symptom is that fterm doesn't display a unix prompt unless either: a) I leave it alone for at least a few minutes. b) I type a character. Response time is Slooooo and jerky. Often I get nothing until I type at it, unless I'm willing to wait for something to time out. 4. I can mount NF0: and cd to it, but anything I do there is supremely slow. Often "dir" requests hang up altogether (and I've left them that way all night with no "timeout" occurring) until I start an fterm and start typing at it, then the request magically gets completed at some random amount of time after (usually a few seconds to a minute or so). 5. Using (Dillon) csh's built-in ls on a DF0: relative file hangs dnet. I'm using Kim's ls4 with good results, except for the erratic behaviour described in #4. I didn't expect DNET to be blazingly fast at a mere 19.2KB, but this "jerky" behaviour, esp with no output until "timeout" or input doesn't seem right either. Any clues? Oh yeah, unix box is 68020 w/ SYSV.3. A500 with 2.3MB memory. (if that's important). Jordan -- PCS Computer Systeme GmbH, Munich, West Germany UUCP: pyramid!pcsbst!jkh jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com EUNET: unido!pcsbst!jkh ARPA: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu or hubbard@decwrl.dec.com