Re: Help with mystery MLI error

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <5h5r2l$1hta$3@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net>,
Steven N. Hirsch <shirsch@ibm.net> wrote:

>Appleshare server) work properly with an Apple //e.  However, when I
>try accessing the server volume from anything other than the
>"official" Apple utilities on the Appleshare IIe Workstation diskette,
>an MLI error $88 occurs.  Unfortunately, this is absolutely
>undocumented <grr>.
>
>Can anyone enlighten me as to why Copy-II Plus and ProSel-8 are unable
>to work with a volume that the Apple utility (and plain-old Basic) has
>no trouble with?

Simple answer. Those utilities bypass the file system and do direct block I/O
to disk volumes. This is verboten with server volumes, and you get error
$88 for your trouble when you try. So you'll have to use network friendly
apps whenever you access the server volume.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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