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From: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's the best NETWORK?
Message-ID: <2293@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 88 19:18:38 GMT
References: <1814@uhccux.UUCP> <1815@uhccux.UUCP> <2229@polyslo.UUCP> <1072@aucs.UUCP>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <1072@aucs.UUCP> paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) writes:
>In my early investigation of Appleshare, I was told that if you wanted
>to have 10 people running the same program, then there would have to be
>10 different copies of the software on the file server.  This was totally
>unacceptable so we went with MacJANET, which did not have this restriction.
>Does the current Appleshare allow a single copy of a program to be used
>simulataneously by any number of users?

  It depends on the software.  But most programs work fine over the network
with more than one user.  Notiable exceptions are MacWrite 4.5 & 4.6, MS Word
1.05, and Excel 1.04 {Haven't tried 1.06 yet}

David M. O'Rourke

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