Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!aucs!peter
From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Questions Re: SE Guided Tour
Message-ID: <810@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 13:59:42 GMT
Reply-To: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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Here's a toughy. Many of you have probably seen the guided tours
that come with Macs. We have a Mac Lab of several SEs and want
to make the Guided Tour available on a public read-only network
volume. The first thing I tried was to simply copy all the tour
files to my hard disk to see if it would run on something other
than its original floppy and from what I can tell, it works fine.
So next, I copied the appropriate files to a public volume that
is accessed over AppleTalk (via PhoneNET) and the guided tour
works fine up to the point it finishes its intro phase and takes
you to the "main menu" screen. At that point, it simply freezes
and I have to re-boot.

I though this might be caused by the network volume being read only,
but the exact same symptons occur when I execute the tour on this
volume in read/write mode.

In theory, there should be no difference in running this tour on
the network volume if it works both on a floppy and a SCSI hard
disk. In practice, this doesn't seem to be the case. Does any
one in net.land have a clue as to what might cause the guided
tour to lock up? We're running MacJANET file server software
with 12 SEs in the lab and an SE as our server.

All comments appreciated.


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Peter Steele Acadia Univ. Wolfville NS Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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