Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm!ndsuvm1!mtus5!ehyounk From: EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: All about sys 7.0 Message-ID: <91087.123233EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET> Date: 28 Mar 91 17:32:33 GMT References: <1991Mar21.095051.29206@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <593@genco.bungi.com> <91085.161852EHYOUNK@MTUS5.BITNET> Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ. Lines: 39 I hate to waste bandwith with this post, but so many people have e-mailed me with replies, I think it is jusified. I guess the word "impossible" was a bad choise of words. Well over 15 people have e-mailed me saying that it is possible to download with a modem in the background useing multifinder. Some, people have been as blunt as to tell me that I don't know what I am talking about. What I meant in my previous post was that it isn't impossible to download in the background, it is just impractical. If all the people that sent me e-mail are still in the dark, yet me explain. When downloading in the backgroud, you even had these problems: 1. When you pull down a menu in the foreground app, does the modem transfer come to a complete halt? 2. If you are doing a task in the foreground, "or in the background for that matter", that requires alot of disk access, does your transfer come to a stop or at least slow to a crawl? 3. Have you even had the remote computer timeout on you or abort the transfer because of too many retries? 4. Have you ever had your effective transfer cut to about 1/2 of the normal rate because your running the task in the background? "This one is a real bummer if you are calling long distance!" About a year and 1/2 ago, I purchased 4meg of ram for my CX. I said to myself: Oh goodie, I can tranfer files, and do my other work at the same time. After I lossed countless hours of download time, I gave up. I agree that for most people multifinder is good enough. But multifinder will not be enough (at least not enough for me), when I buy my next machine. So to summerize, IN MY OPINION, doing a tranfer in the background on the mac is impactical. I am sorry for all the confussion, that I caused. I will more careful in the future! Edward H. Younk Computer Engineering Student Michigan Tech University