[comp.sys.amiga] Fishy problems: DNET and CAR anim

jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) (08/29/90)

I just grabbed the "Car" animation off of fish disk 123 and unpacked it.
I have 2.3 megabytes of memory. However, no matter how much memory
I try to keep free (coming up with vanilla workbench, nothing running
in background), ShowANIM always says "not enough memory for bitmaps".

The DOC says you need only a megabyte. What gives?

I also finally got ahold of the DNET binaries and am having the following
problems:

1. I ported the UNIX side to SYSV.3 (some of the tty specific code had to be
   changed, but nothing too complicated).

2. I installed the amiga binaries as DNET:amiga/bin

3. I start dnet on both sides, assuming 8 bits no parity. Original window
   goes away, fterm comes up, all is hunky dory. Sort of. The first symptom
   is that fterm doesn't display a unix prompt unless either:

	a) I leave it alone for at least a few minutes.
	b) I type a character.

   Response time is Slooooo and jerky. Often I get nothing until I type
   at it, unless I'm willing to wait for something to time out.

4. I can mount NF0: and cd to it, but anything I do there is supremely
   slow. Often "dir" requests hang up altogether (and I've left them
   that way all night with no "timeout" occurring) until I start an fterm
   and start typing at it, then the request magically gets completed at
   some random amount of time after (usually a few seconds to a minute or so).

5. Using (Dillon) csh's built-in ls on a DF0: relative file hangs dnet.
   I'm using Kim's ls4 with good results, except for the erratic behaviour
   described in #4.

I didn't expect DNET to be blazingly fast at a mere 19.2KB, but this
"jerky" behaviour, esp with no output until "timeout" or input doesn't
seem right either. Any clues?

Oh yeah, unix box is 68020 w/ SYSV.3. A500 with 2.3MB memory.
(if that's important).

					Jordan
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