glennr@sunray.UUCP (Glenn D. Rasmussen) (11/15/89)
I've recently set my machine up as a pseudo file server for a selected set of files using Public Folder 1.0. On the surface, PF works wonders. It is very fast and easy to use! However... I am finding that my file system is corrupted after someone copies files from my machine. A reboot has always corrected the problems (ie nothing fatal yet). Three examples: 1. MPW will stop running a script in the background. I cannot close any temporary files opened by the script. I can quit and restart, however. 2. MPW and the linker. I use the -mf option, which will chew up all available memory on the machine. Linker also opens as many files as it can. Usually a reboot is necessary after this case. 3. Quitting MacTerminal corrupted my MacTerminal document. MacTerminal reported error -38 twice (fnOpnErr). All this runs on a 5Mb MacII with colour. Yes, I run MultiFinder. Anyone have any suggestions? GDr -- Glenn D. Rasmussen VoiceCom:(613)738-1338x6106 P. O. Box 9707 Cognos Incorporated Human:(613)738-1440 Fax:(613)738-0002 3755 Riverside Dr. glennr@cognos.UUCP - uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!glennr Ottawa, Ontario Munger(): Best function I've seen since WHAT_IT_IS_IS()! CANADA K1G 3Z4
peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce) (11/18/89)
In article <7490@sunray.UUCP> glennr@cognos.UUCP (Glenn D. Rasmussen) writes: >I've recently set my machine up as a pseudo file server for a selected set of >files using Public Folder 1.0. On the surface, PF works wonders. It is very >fast and easy to use! > >However... > >I am finding that my file system is corrupted after someone copies files from >my machine. A reboot has always corrected the problems (ie nothing fatal yet). >Three examples: >1. MPW will stop running a script in the background. I cannot close any > temporary files opened by the script. I can quit and restart, however. >2. MPW and the linker. I use the -mf option, which will chew up all available > memory on the machine. Linker also opens as many files as it can. Usually a > reboot is necessary after this case. >3. Quitting MacTerminal corrupted my MacTerminal document. MacTerminal reported > error -38 twice (fnOpnErr). > >All this runs on a 5Mb MacII with colour. Yes, I run MultiFinder. > >Anyone have any suggestions? > >GDr Humm, I have a similar configuration, spend > 90% of my time in MPW, and have three PF's running on my machine... Could you list the other INITs/etc that you have in your system? Maybe that will provide the clue. If you send me email, maybe we can come up with a solution. [I would have kept this in email, rather than post, but I wanted to ask people to PLEASE list the other INIT/CDEV/RDEV's that you have in your system when you have problems. It makes it muchmuchmuch easier to figure out what's wrong. Thanks!] -- P.S. FYI: MPW is the ONE program that PF explicitly has to work around. It turns out that MPW uses a special file system to handle i/o to its windows. They failed to correctly implement the ASync version of PBGetCatInfo and since PF runs in the environment of the foreground application - KAPLOWIE. Apple was quite cooperative in tracking this problem down and recommended a fix to me. THANKS APPLE! Claris Corp. | Michael R. Peirce (author of Public Folder) -------------+-------------------------------------- | 5201 Patrick Henry Drive MS-C4 | Box 58168 | Santa Clara, CA 95051-8168 | (408) 987-7319 | AppleLink: peirce1 | Internet: peirce@claris.com | uucp: {ames,decwrl,apple,sun}!claris!peirce