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- From: klui@corp.hp.com (Kenneth K.F. Lui)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Next to Mac networking
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 03:24:59 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
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- In article <BzB1o6.CFH@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> "J.Cassidy - Optometry" <optadm7@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
- >I have a NeXT station and a MAC Quadra and a PC at home. They
- >are connected with thin coax Ethernet. I purchased a product
- >from IPT, named Ushare
-
- I have an '040 cube at home with a Mac IIx. Otherwise, same
- configuration.
-
- > You must call in after you
- >receive the software to get this key.
-
- I thought this was stupid as well--but then you have to do the
- same thing with Mathematica. Re: Mathematica, I don't use it so
- it just sits unregistered.
-
- > They seemed unwilling to just give
- >me the key over the phone, wanting a FAX instead.
-
- Strange, they called me back and gave me the key within 6 hours
- or so. No questions asked.
-
- >The key that you get is only good for 1-2months. Only after IPT
- >receives the payment will you get a perm. key.
-
- Are you sure? Nothing was said about the key I received to be
- temporary. How did you pay for the product? I used plastic.
-
- >The last point, the origonal software was only good for NS 2.1.
- >Since I purchased the software within 2 weeks of their updated
- >product for 3.0, I was told that my upgrade would be 'in the mail'.
-
- I bought the product around a week ago. The box came with v1.07
- for NS2.1 and v1.09 for NS3.0. When did you purchase the
- product? I'm running NS2.1 and plan on upgrading to V3 when 3.1
- comes out.
-
- The product works well. I'm able to print directly from my Mac
- to my NeXT laser printer and I've offloaded a lot of files stored
- on Macintosh diskettes to 1 optical disk. Using the optical is
- waaay slow, though. What's a nice feature is that I'm allowed to
- print from my NeXT to printers connected to my Mac--when 1200dpi
- laser printers are a commodity, I'll be using that feature a
- lot...unless NeXT comes out with one first to replace the 400dpi
- laser. Too bad I can't see Macintosh volumes from my NeXT or
- it'll be perfect, but I don't have that need at this point.
-
- One additional item: the scripts that start ushare has a lot of
- sleeps and it would take forever for the daemons to be launched.
- I commented them out and now it loads a lot faster and everything
- still works...
-
-
-
- Ken
- #include <disclaimer> My opinions do not reflect those of my employer
- I'm not affiliated with IPT
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