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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Finally, Peer-to-Peer non-dedicated AppleShare, this month!!!
Message-ID: <2114@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 89 10:22:33 GMT
References: <1968@ccnysci.UUCP> <400@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
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Organization: City College of New York
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In article <400@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes:
>Do you have any more details on the Unix machines aspect?  Can they
>publish big, cross-mounted file systems?  Can the Unix copy be a
>client too, or only a server as with Tops?  Do they need a Unix<=>Mac
>beta site??

This software, called uShare, was IPT's first product. It has been shipping
for a long time (over a year, I think). So they don't need any betas for that.
I'm pretty sure the unix boxes can mount Mac file systems as well as serve
Unix FSs to Macs.

>Also very curious about speed and robustness.  How easy will it be to
>crash? ...I'm pretty good at crashing things...

Not much hard data yet, but so far things look pretty good. The server code
itself hasn't crashed once, though the administrator program (for setting
up users and groups) has died twice. But relax, it's a Beta, not shipping
code. They are going to do a lot of work on the administrator before they
release it.

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Alexis Rosen
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