Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!linus!linus!mwunix.mitre.org!jblue From: jblue@mwunix.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Major Bug in System 7 Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 19:37:58 GMT References: <1991Jun21.184615.8712@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: mwunix.mitre.org steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes: >I've just spoken with Fox Technical Support about a >problem I was having using multiuser FoxBase. They claim >that Apple has acknowledged a major bug in System 7's >file sharing software. In this case, it showed up when >I tried to open a database from the machine it is on. >Apparently, there is no problem opening files from the >client machines. But if you open files on the server, >there is some problem with file locking, etc. >I don't think Apple has announced plans to fix the >bug. It's possible it won't be fixed until this fall >when Apple releases four new machines and a new version >of system 7 to run them. >All the above information comes from Fox Technical Support, >and I have no independent verification. Perhaps someone >could confirm it with Apple. >Steve Goldfield >College of Engineering Can you supply the sympton that you encountered that madeyou call Fox support? I have been using it for quite some time on system 7, and I have been developing a database and program on a server machine from a client, but I have encountered no problems at all. Jason The MITRE Corporation