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From: [e-mail] (USENET News System)
Subject: Re: *** WARNING *** Novell + QuickTime = Disaster
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Massey University
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 01:35:55 GMT
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From article <[e-mail]>, by [e-mail] (Franklet, Duane L.):
>>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>>>
>>>Just in case this is unknown:
>>>
>>>WARNING: DO NOT place ANY QuickTime movie files on Novell file servers
>>>to which you have references, EVEN if you move the
>>>documents/applications containing the references. This problem has
>>>been confirmed using the ScrapBook as well as my own software.
>>>
> This made me curious, so I copied a movie over to the file server. It
> played fine. So I inserted it into a WordPerfect document. It played fine.
> I then copied the document to a new folder on the server, thinking this
> would surely mess up the path to the movie. Nope, it still played. I
> then left the movie on the server and copied the document to my hard
> drive. The movie still plays. And so on.
>
> Where's the problem?
>
> Wouldn't it be a little more sensible to say, you can't use Wild Magic,
> or whatever it is that gives you trouble, than to make a blanket statement
> about all uses of QuickTime?
>
> ____________________
> Duane Franklet
> [e-mail]

Try the combination: insert movie into WordPerfect document, move MOVIE (and
WP doc if you like) onto Novell file-server. Now attempt to play it... The
problem is that moving the movie DATA onto Novell has destroyed the link
to it embedded in the WP doc. We have yet to confirm why the problem
occurs but the suspect is Novell's rounding of time-stamps to even seconds
(maybe there's enough odd in the DOS world already without including
odd seconds :-) :-)). It is not to do with storing hard-coded pathnames as
suggested my one of Novell's postings. As to Novell's suggested "work around"
of altering the timestamp embedded in the document using ResEdit... well as
a hardened hacker I might be able to do this, but an average (= normal :-))
user?

Apologies for the confusion over this problem, I thought I'd been explict
enough in the original post but obviously not. As a major use of QT is
pasting movies into documents I still see this as a MAJOR problem with
Novell. We still don't know if it effects other applications.

Nigel
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Dr Nigel Perry                    Email: [e-mail]
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Massey University                 Fax: [phone]
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