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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Max number of sharing clients?
Message-ID: <1991May21.181323.17954@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 21 May 91 18:13:23 GMT
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In article <1991May18.163247.21564@neon.Stanford.EDU>, philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
|> In the MacUser article about System 7, the claim is made that
|> there is a limit of 10 clients sharing files on a given
|> machine. There are other inaccuracies in the article (e.g.,
|> the claim that the get info comments are saved across desktop
|> file rebuilds) and there appears to be nothing about such a
|> limit in the manual so I'd appreciate definitive information
|> from someone who _knows_:
|> o is there such a limit?
|> - if so, is it hard-coded, or does it depend on factors like
|>   available RAM?
Answer to my own question. I called the System 7 Upgrade Answerline.
They agreed the information should be in the documentation
but isn't. There is indeed a hardcoded limit of 10 clients
(total 11 users, including the owner).
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu