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From: alberti@cs.umn.edu (Albatross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7, Filesharing, and the IIcx
Message-ID: <1991May22.215422.1575@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 22 May 91 21:54:22 GMT
References: <19651@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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In <19651@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> jsnell@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Jason Snell) writes:
>a small string of questions:

>1. can one share files with machines running 7.0 if one is running
>   6.0.x (connected thru an Appletalk network)?
>   If so, how?

Treat each 7.0 machine like a server, access it via the chooser.  simple.

>2. Why the hell does 7.0 show up as taking up 1800 K of my memory?
>   I don't have THAT many fonts, do I? Am I doing something wrong here?
>   (I've got 4 megs, but for those people who only have 2...)

'Cause that's how big it is.

>3. Does 7.0 work with the IIcx or not? We've got one at work (along with
>   the appletalk network mentioned in #1) and I'm the one who has to try
>   and update us to 7.0 this summer.

I'm running 7.0 on a IIcx with 4 Meg memory right now.

>background: the network's got 4 SE's running 6.0.x (2 megs memory each,
>I think), a IIcx, IIfx, and IIsi. We're printing to a VT-600W and LWIINTX.

Add more memory to the SE's and make sure everything in question has a hard
disk.  About the printers, I don't know.
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