Re: [MacPerl] Perl in the workplace

[Richard Gordon <maccgi@bellsouth.net>]

At 12:34 +0100 6/16/1999, Adrian Howard wrote:
>If you can persuade your sysop (or are one) netatalk is also a fine
>addition on the Unix side since you can then mount unix directories as Mac
>volumes and avoid all that FTP nonsense :-)

Altho that would be useful, my understanding is that using netatalk 
can impose  a big hit on general performance at least with Linux. 
I've never tried it myself, but a friend of mine used it for a while 
on his Linux box and finally removed it altogether. Maybe the machine 
was underpowered to begin with or something, but I lost interest in 
this because of his experience.

Ftp isn't so bad, but does have some practical limitations. If you 
are editing a large text file on a server via BBEdit's ftp feature, 
every save involves transferring the entire local temp file back to 
the server. With a 5 meg file and a pokey dialup connection, that 
means 20-25 mins. per save, no matter how trivial the edit was. I 
found it much more efficient to jump into telnet and fire up emacs to 
work with the file on the server directly. Of course, life doesn't 
get much stranger than emacs, but I've grown to like it pretty well 
and it is fast.


Richard Gordon
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