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From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: NetBunny lives .. in System 7.0 (Was: System 7 questions)
Message-ID: <53454@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 29 May 91 18:40:42 GMT
References: <rcbaem.675459318@rw9.urc.tue.nl> <11572@ncar.ucar.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <11572@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) writes:
>In article <rcbaem.675459318@rw9.urc.tue.nl> rcbaem@rw9.urc.tue.nl (pooh 
>'Ernst' Mulder) writes:
>> The root-level file called Appleshare <something> (I do not recollect
>> its full name...) is invisible, but when you look into it (resedit) it has an
>> icon... It's a WABBIT! (with sunglasses).
>
>This is the NetBunny! I encountered him in the root level window of a hard 
>disk (which I believe had zero K available) when I attempted (and failed) 
>to turn on File Sharing. He was associated with a visible, zero length 
>file called "AppleShare PDS". When I made room available on this disk, I 
>could successfully start File Sharing -- no more NetBunny. :-(
>

  No, no, no, no.  NetBunny is something else.  The code name for FileShare
during development was Killer Rabbit.  During the alpha stages of System 7,
FileShare servers came up with the Killer Rabbit In A Monitor icon instead of
the normal AppleShare server icon.

  -- Dean Yu
     Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, NetBunny Engineer, etc.
     Apple Computer, Inc.
     Please don't innundate me with mail about NetBunny...