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CDLatham@cen.ex.ac.uk (C.D.Latham) wrote:

>In article <Bz000E.3rt@cen.ex.ac.uk> MMBCorle@cen.ex.ac.uk (Martin Corley)
>writes:

>> I've just installed TCP/IP / Atomwide series III card / A5000, and
>> it's working _fine_, apart from 1 small niggle:
>>
>> When moving a directory _back_ from my NFS filespace to ADFS, I get a
>> constant "already exists" warning from the filer -- for directories
>> and application directories _only_.

Try playing around with your Filer Options. I recommend having Verbose and
Newer on, and Confirm and Force off. I don't remember having any problems
with NFS with these settings. Timestamps can be a problem with NFS though. I
believe that across NFS time can be represented to the nearest thousandth of
a second, whereas on RISC OS it's to the nearest hundredth, and then there's
the resolution of time as stored on disc on the Unix system to bear in mind
(you don't say what flavour of Unix it is). There is some tradeoff
happening. I can't remember exactly, but I believe that in one direction
files/directories which ought to be regarded as having the same timestamp
don't. It's_probably copying from NFS to RISC OS - the NFS files may be
regarded as being newer when they aren't, which might give the warnings you
quote above without the right Filer options.

>Very strange - it doesn't happen with Acorn Ethernet I, A5000 and
>RISC OS 3.0 - I just tried to be certain too.  It seems that there
>slightly different versions of the Internet module in circulation
>and you need to get the right one for your system.  I think that the
>Atomwide card needs Internet 1.05 plus a couple of other little modules
>to make it go.

There are only really two versions of the TCP/IP suite Internet module:
those that support plug in device driver modules (Internet 1.03 and later
"DCI Compatible") and those that don't (the original 1.01). All other minor
variants on these are patches applied to them with !Patch. 1.04 and 1.05 are
simply patched versions of 1.03, and there are also patched versions of 1.01
which still have the number 1.01 - !Patch can tell you if it's been patched
or not. The patches are very important - make sure you're running patched
versions (and a patched NFS - version 1.02) even on RISC OS 2.

There are also the AUN Internet modules. I am not familiar with these.

Owen.