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MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) writes:

>If you kick out the LocalTalk connector on your Mac, you lose network
>services, but your Mac *should not* crash. At least, the AShare client
>software shouldn't cause that crash, it should be giving you the "the
>server disappeared" dialog.

Right now, if I kick out the LocalTalk connector to my Mac, nothing
happens. (I did it right after the comma.) I can do it for a pretty long
period of time, too -- I did it right after those parentheses and
went down the hall for a drink of water.

I am typing this in a window across AppleTalk onto my UNIX machine,
by the way.

When the *server* goes down, however, it crashes immediately, no chance
for recovery. I am not sure that anything really *can* happen at that
point -- if that Mac has failed, your work is lost, as if your Mac
had failed. Isn't that true? Nice programs will let you recover what you're
working on, of course....

Dan

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