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From: jeremym@brahms.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DNET Hell PART III (the dreaded SUN3) AIIIIIIGHHH!
Keywords: DNET, Jeremy, 43, Amiga, Hell, 43
Message-ID: <14981@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 90 13:56:43 GMT
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In article <jgary.656387182@s.ms.uky.edu> jgary@ms.uky.edu (James E. Gary) writes:

A follow up on my own article: hehe

>jeremym@brahms.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz) writes:
><with plenty of omissions>
>>out that the blasted binarys (the dnet files, etc)
>>only had the two protection bits set! I had to set
>>them from wr to wred before they would run. 
>
>I think this is from zooing under Unix. You can't expect Unix to
>understand the Amiga's protection bits. Happens to me all the time.
>

Nope... I unzoo'd it on the Amiga's side. I got the zoo archive
off of uiuc and then unpacked zoo x// 'd it.
It created directorys and set up nicely. Byt
only the rw bits were set. Wierd.. .o-well...
 
<other really useful advice below, which jeremy is sure
to use!! but that was deleted anyway!>

>Read the docs carefully. DNET originally required an 8-bit path. The
>latest rev allows (actually defaults to) 7 bits. The safe thing is
>to run it in 7 bit mode. I start dnet with
>DNET -P0 -Z0 -m -X -8
>on the amiga side and 'dnet -m0' on
>the unix end. Remove the -m on the amiga and -m0 on unix to
>use 7 bit mode -- it should be safe.

Sounds *GREAT* lemme try that. I'll reply to this post with
my results, or I'll start a DNET IV (AIIIIIIGH)
thigngie..

> James Gary, BA,MS,SWM      U. of Kentucky       jgary@ms.uky.edu 


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