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From: resnick@COGSCI.UIUC.EDU (Pete Resnick)
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Subject: Re:  Time on Macs
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Date: 13 Jun 91 19:47:44 GMT
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ellozy@farber.harvard.edu (Mohamed Ellozy) writes:

>There seems to be only one program, Network Time, written by Pete
>Resnick, which can be ftp'ed from either sumex-aim.stanford.edu in
>directory mac-info/cp (NOT cdev, now gone) or from wuarchive.wustl.edu
>in directory mirrors/info-mac/cp (again, not cdev).
>...
>I have two minor problems.  There is only room for one timeserver, so if
>it is down the user is out of luck.  Also, there is a possibility of
>periodic updates, at an interval specified in days.  Would be nice to have
>finer granularity.  Normally, I may add, it is run at boot.

I want to thank Mohamed for this unsolicited plug of my prgram. I would
like to say in response to his problems that Network 2.0, which is due to
come out "real soon now" will allow up to four time servers and full System
7 support. Other improvements, such as the finer granularity of the
interval are still being solicited and considered.

Thanks again, Mohamed.

pr

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