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From: mcjones@jumbo.dec.com (Paul McJones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: JCRemote
Message-ID: <14259@jumbo.dec.com>
Date: 21 Dec 89 18:17:22 GMT
References: <617@vice2utc.chalmers.se>
Reply-To: mcjones@jumbo.UUCP (Paul McJones)
Organization: DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto
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Martin,

[I'm following up to the net rather than replying directly to Martin
partly because I can't find a mail address that works for him and partly
because I think my experience my be of interest to others considering
trying JCRemote.]

JCRemote got at least as far as decwrl in California, so it probably
propagated fairly widely.

I downloaded it, unpacked it, and dropped it in the system folder of my
Mac Plus.  Then I opened the Chooser and selected JCRemote without
rebooting my machine. Nothing happened for several minutes (the machine
displayed the watch cursor, and wouldn't respond to Command-.) then I got
a bomb box (ID = 25).  There was a restart button in the bomb box, so I
pushed it, but the bomb box returned.  So I rebooted my machine, but that
failed: I had to replace the System file before I could reboot from the
hard disk.  Luckily I lost no data files.

I recommend you supply some documentation accompanying JCRemote, including
installation instructions, i.e., REBOOT MACHINE BEFORE TRYING TO RUN
JCRemote.  You might also mention which machines you've tested it on.

Finally, I tried JCRemote again, and managed to fetch files from another
machine.  But I noticed some problems:

    After invoking the Fetch command, if I descended into a folder 
    of the other Mac, I couldn't use the normal pop-up to get back 
    out of that folder: the pop-up would display, but wouldn't respond 
    to the mouse.

    I couldn't fetch an entire folder: it would create the folder 
    on my machine, but would then get an error -37 for each of the 
    constituent files it tried to fetch.

    If the program is fruitlessly searching for other machines running 
    JCRemote, it doesn't provide a way to cancel.  There should be 
    a cancel button.  Eventually, JCRemote seems to time out and bomb 
    with ID = 25 (out of memory?).

By the way, I was curious why I had to type the "empty password" to
StuffIt in order to unpack the file.


Paul McJones
DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto
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mcjones@src.dec.com