[softwarelist] Re: SparkFS 1.41 (RISC OS) - Zip size max?
From: Martin Devon <martin.devon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:22:24 +0100
In message <4ee0fb9e8edfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Dave Symes <dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <a38ffae04e.Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Martin Devon <martin.devon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > At present I have an external USB Hardrive connected to the XP PC, on
>> > to which I backup XP PC stuff and via LanMan98, and stuff from this
>> > SARPC, but in order to do that I *have* to archive (Uncompressed) all
>> > the stuff from this machine, otherwise it ends up in crap order, like
>> > no filetypes.
>
>> Surely there must be something astray with your LanMan98 setup, eg do
>> you have a current Mappings file inside LanMan98?
>
> Yes it does have a mappings file inside LM98.
> I've also got Notypes set to Y
> I can't remember why now, there was some reason.
> I guess if I change that to N it will preserve all the filetypes, but I
> still wonder why I set it to Y in the first place.
That looks like it.
If you are minded to experiment, try running an NFS server on your PC.
Sunfish is twice as fast as LanMan for write operations.
--
Martin R. Devon MSc
Consulting Engineer, Box, Wilts, UK
RISC OS in the Timber Frame Housing Industry
