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- From: Andrew.Brennan@launchpad.unc.edu (Andrew Brennan)
- Subject: Hypercard and servers ...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.221859.10271@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:18:59 GMT
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- re: what am I doing with HC & the server?
-
- Sheer simplicity - so I thought. I have a LARGE (18M) CAI/CBL
- package that my site is effectively beta-testing *during* it's
- development. Recent additions (about 8.4M) have included a stack
- of sound resources (4.8M) and a number of PICT files. Since the
- majority of the machines in the lab don't have enough space to
- locally load this system, it made a LOT of sense to put this on
- the server - no?
-
- The sounds access fine - I ran into a hitch with the memory
- size on the stations being low, but 1500 appears to clear that up.
- The problem is the PICTs - I can copy the stack *from*the*server*
- that calls the PICTs, launch HC, open the stack ... and it works
- FINE! But, since the package uses a HC front-end to copy stacks
- from the server ... the stack is opened, the sounds load fine and
- the PICTs cause "No such window."
-
- I recently got it working by copying all of the PICTs to the
- local stations (as well as the front-end and select modules) -
- now the front-end copies the PICT-calling stack from the server,
- the stack loads the PICTs (from the local drive) and everything
- is simply peachy.
-
- Why am I complaining still? Because my "fix" is stupid! All
- I did was change the paths of the PICTs and copy them locally -
- nothing more! This being the case, I'm stuck with 12 PICTs on
- every machine - when they are only needed in ONE specific stack.
-
- I'm toying with the idea of making them all PICT resources
- and adding them to the stack of sound resources ... but I'm very
- perturbed that it didn't work the way I "understood" it should
- work. Oh well - that's what keeps life interesting ...
-
- Andrew.Brennan@bbs.oit.unc.edu
- (brennan@hal.hahnemann.edu)
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