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From: edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: hypercarding over TOPS
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Date: 7 Jul 88 18:03:23 GMT
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In article <270@hodge.UUCP> bmenell@pnet06.cts.com (Bryan Menell) writes:
>   I've had trouble accessing stacks over a TOPS network. My stack is
>on another computer (serving to me via TOPS), and when I click on it
>I get that dialog box that helps HyperCard get the path name. The
>wierd thing is... when I click on "Phone Stack" (on a TOPSed volume)
>the dialog says, "Where is 'Phone Stack'?" Well! I just clicked on it!
>So I select it again from the directory, and it dies and goes to the
>home card. I have tried this with all configurations of mounting and
>publishing, write-protect/one writer/many writers, and the problem
>persists. Locally, everything works fine. It is just when I try to access
>files that are on a TOPS volume.

The same problem occurs with stacks on an AUFS/AppleShare server (running on
a Unix system).  The workd that I've heard is that HyperCard does some
funny things to the filename (like changing the case of letters) before
trying to open it.  On a real Macintosh fileserver, using the Macintosh
file system, since filename searchs are case insensitive, it works OK.
But Unix is case-sensitive when looking for file names.

This is what I found out, using the debug mode of AUFS.  I put a stack called
Inventory on the mounted volume and tried to open it.  The Finder used the
correct name Inventory, but HyperCard was looking for a file iNvEnToRy (finger
you your throat :-|).  If I change the name of the stack to iNvEnToRy, it
works!!!!

I hope Apple is listening, because this is a major BUG, especially since Apple
is pushing connectivity with other hardware.

Edward Moy
Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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