Re: [netatalk-admins] Glitches with system 8 and 1.4b2


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Glitches with system 8 and 1.4b2
From: Jamie Unwin (jamie@webmedia.com)
Date: Fri Jul 11 1997 - 06:57:59 EDT


I'm having similar troubles, the problem is OS8 is alot more stable for
everything else which is very annoying. I am also having problems moving
the icons on a Netatalk volume, they seem to want to stay in the same
position.

>I have been playing a bit with the System 8 Golden Master, and it has some
>annoying behaviour when I have connected to a NetAtalk volume.
>
>About every 10 seconds or so it thinks something has changed, and it
>redraws the window. So if I scroll in a window, after around 10 secs, I am
>back to the top left. If I want an always-sorted-by-name view, then many
>files often appears twice, disappears, reappears single, double etc.
>
>I am NOT using the TCP patches.
>
>Also, mounted network volumes takes longer to appear on Desktop. But that
>also goes for NT volumes.
>
>The volumes mounted from the NT server does not show this behaviour, and
>there is MUCH LESS flashing of the atalk activity arrows in the menu bar.
>
>I am not sure what is going wrong, but it is worth to investigate.
>
>I would not recommend wide use of system 8 with 1.4b2.
>
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