bond@chalmers.UUCP (Magnus Bondesson) (03/01/86)
We have several MacXLs and Macs connected in a net running XL/Serve. One of
the MacXLs works as a central hard disk. By the way, the problems reported in
the previous message are independent of XL/Serve. E g we have MacPascal on
the central disk. During the last 6 months we have run programming courses for
about 500 students taking Pascal on this configuration.
We are quite satisfied with the system although there are some problems with
XL/Serve and several serious bugs in MacPascal. Here I would like to pose some
questions concerning XL/Serve. Our version is from August 1985.
1. Printing of MacPascaldocuments
There is a printer server facility in XL/Serve. However we haven't been able to
use it to print documents correctly on a connected ImageWriter, since the text
gets corrupted (this applies if even you have XON/XOFF!). This happens to
MacPascal as well as MacWrite and MacPaint documents.
Still worse, the presence of the XL/Serve desk accessory, which you need to
work with the central disk, makes it impossible to print MacPascal documents
correctly on a locally connected ImageWriter! You get a lot of extra tabs or
spaces.
The only possible way has been to print the documents from the Finder (which in
the process opens MacPascal) on a locally connected printer! This is,to say the
least, somewhat annoying. The only only good consequence of that is that our
paper consumption becomes low.
Any similar experiences or explanations or best of all solutions?
2. XL/Serve and HFS
Is it possible to use XL/Serve together with the new HFS-system on the local
Macs? The reason I ask is that we haven't been able to get hold of a MacPlus
yet to test it ourselves.
Magnus Bondesson
Dep of Computer Sciences
Chalmers University of Technology
S-412 96 Goteborg
Sweden
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