Subject: Re: pre-asun2.1.4-39
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2000 - 00:02:56 EDT
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Stephen Welker wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 7:36 PM -0700 andrew morgan <morgan@orst.edu> wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Harry Zink/Netatalk List wrote:
> >
> >> on 7/19/00 12:02 PM, Jürgen Weltzer at weltzer@werbeagentur-weltzer.de
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I h a v e done this, and I have many Problems with corrupted
> >>> files (jpeg, PageMaker, Freehand - files). Advertising needs some
> >>> Macs. Netatalk-admins, please help us users.
> >>
> >> I believe the issue of corrupted files has been brought up time and
> >> again, yet never really been addressed, or acknowledged by anyone -
> >> unfortunately, I have never experienced this issue myself, but itr is
> >> being brought up often enough to warrant serious consideration.
> >
> > Are the files actually corrupted? A while back a user reported that
> > anytime he tried to copy an EPS file to the server using ASIP, it would
> > disconnect. If there is actual corruption of the files, what are the
> > circumstances? Does it happen when the file is copied to or from the
> > server? Is it repeatable?
> >
> > I've had a possibly related problem with printing from Freehand. If I try
> > to print in color a document with an embedded jpeg image through papd, the
> > job will be truncated somewhere in the middle of the binary code
> > representing the image, and always at the same spot.
> >
> > Could this point to a problem with the underlying transport layer code in
> > netatalk?
> >
> > I hope to debug this further as my time permits.
>
> Andy,
>
> Did the problem go away after you applied the patches by Andras Kadinger to
> enable binary printing through papd?
Nope, I've been working with those patches plus my own authentication
patches since the beginning. I have actually thought of going back to the
stock papd to see if the problem occurs there as well...
Andy
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