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From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: TCP/IP for DOS software packages
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Date: 26 Nov 90 02:37:36 GMT
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    ....  It's not hard to hang the PC with either the
    Wollongong or the FTP Software product.

Hanging the PC isn't a problem we were aware of in any of our versions, nor
does it happen for any of our in-house users (all of sales and production).
Did you discuss your problems with our support people?

    ...  And one of these packages managed to screw up the
    file system on the NeXT we're using for testing.

The "reference version" of NFS that Sun licenses has had a number of serious
problems related to writes which don't being on even 512-byte boundaries.  In
the section of our manual which discusses changing the default write size, we
warn about this, because it appears in lots of NFS servers...

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