Re: Persuasion publish & subscribe

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From: David Gutierrez
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:26

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In article <SANDY.92Aug24154642@beeker.cs.umass.edu> sandy@beeker.cs.umass.edu
(Sandy Wise) writes:
>I don't know if this is your problem, but: Subscribe does not work if
>the edition file is on a AppleShare volume (atleast under CAP). Having
>the edition open in FreeHand when performing the subscribe seemed to help.

That also seems to be true for System 7 File Sharing, but it also happens on a
single machine.

>When I called Aldus about this, I was told "Persuasion is not network
>compatible" and when I asked to report it as a bug I was told "It
>isn't really a bug -- Persuasion just wasn't designed to be used on a
>network." I bit my tongue, and said "thank you for your time."

Sounds like they haven't properly implemented publish & subscribe. It seems to
me that if it were done correctly, it wouldn't matter if it were on a network
volume or a local volume. We'll just keep QuickMailing our clipboards to each
other.

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard

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