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From: reb@cs.brown.edu (Robert E. Brown)
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Subject: Re: NeXT,Mac,NFS
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Date: 14 Nov 90 07:55:30 GMT
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Wollongong has a Macintosh NFS client product that I have been using
for a few weeks.  It is a new product with plenty of interesting bugs,
but performs well if you do not do strange things.  Bugs I have
discovered include:

1.  Files created on the Next have the wrong date when seen by the
    Macintosh.

2.  The Wollongong software creates files in pseudo-AppleDouble
    format.  The way they store Macintosh creation date information in
    the file violates the AppleDouble spec.  The file naming conventions
    also violate the spec.

3.  The client software takes the free disk space on the NFS server
    modulo 64 Mb before reporting it to the Macintosh.  So if I have
    65 Mb free on my Next, the Macintosh thinks I have only 1 Mb of
    free space.  The finder will then refuse to copy folders that are
    larger than 1 Mb.

4.  The software is not as very clever when it comes to dealing with
    Unix files on the server that the Macintosh did not create.  The
    public domain CAP software will do newline conversion when it
    sees a file on the server with no finder info.

In spite of the above glitches, the product has been extremely useful.
It is worth the $195 that Wollongong is charging.