HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re: Color memory questions
Reply-To: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:01:29 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.201126.27227@CS.ORST.EDU> cowgilc@tsunami.CS.ORST.EDU  
(Clayton Neil Cowgill) writes:
> In article <1992Aug10.215117.25551@cs.yale.edu>  
> nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
> [...]
> > 
> > There's your problem right there, my good man.
> > 
> > Try reading the current FAQ for the answers to all your questions.
> > 
> > People, USE THE $^$^$*($&$)(@#^@ FAQs!!!
> > People, USE THE $^$^$*($&$)(@#^@ FAQs!!!
> > People, USE THE $^$^$*($&$)(@#^@ FAQs!!!
> > People, USE THE...
> 
> Take a deep breath... *RELAX*... He said he read the FAQ (amyeb he  
> couldn't find the newest one), he said he needed more help. Flaming him  
> will only discourage others from utilizing this newsgroup as a helpful  
> source of information. Geez...

I'll take the deep breath, thanks.

I *want* to discourage others from utilizing this
newsgroup to post questions that are answered in the
FAQs!  His questions *were* indeed answered in the latest
FAQs, which he did not indicate he read.  What good is
checking older FAQs?

I should have added smiles with the cursing - it's what I
really meant.   But you know, it's damn frustrating to work
so hard keeping the FAQ when people ignore it again and
again... 

--
Nathan Janette		"I'm a NeXTstep man,
Dept MB&B, Yale Univ	 I'm a NeXTcube guy"
New Haven, CT
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
From: kenb@amc.com (Ken Birdwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Ethernet connection of lone PC and lone NeXT
Keywords: ethernet
Date: 16 Aug 92 22:43:21 GMT
Distribution: pnw
Organization: Applied Microsystems, Redmond, WA

(This is only supposed to have local distribution, so if you're out 
of the WA, OR, V.BC area ignore this message)

I looking for someone to help me hook up my NeXT and PC with a 
ethernet connection.  I have a Western Digital 16bit ethernet card, 
a 20ft cable, and all the NCSA Telnet stuff (as well as the SOSS software),
but try as I might I can't get the two to find each other.  I don't
actually get any errors, I just can't figure out how to set them up so that 
the PC's Telnet can find my NeXT.  Setting up the NeXT also seems to be 
a problem because almost all of the documentation is about  setting up 
NetInfo, and about connecting up to a existing network.  Unfortunitly, I 
don't have a existing network to connect to, just two lonely boxes.

What I'm looking for is someone to come over to my basement and help me 
set them up.  If you're willing but would like some reimbursment, that's 
fine. 

Ken Birdwell - 746-1514
Bellevue WA.

[a serial connection is way too slow, I need to transfer several 1-5MB files
back and forth each day]


-- 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tholland@pars.skidmore.edu (Anthony Holland)
Subject: 3.0 Upgrades--include IMPROV,MATHEMATICA&LISP ??
Keywords: upgrade
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:50:35 GMT

Does anyone know....you beta user types out there....
when we upgrade to 3.0, do we still get lisp, mathematica and improv ? Or  
atleast are we given an option to prevent them from being destroyed during  
the upgrade process ?  Thanks

Anthony Holland
NeXT Campus Support
Music Department
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerardo@ferris.cray.com (Gerardo Cisneros)
Subject: Re: Turning off NeXT at night....
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 13 Aug 92 20:42:35 CDT

In article <stewart.713727223@ecse.rpi.edu> stewart@ecse.rpi.edu (Paul Stewart) writes:
>bill@epnxt.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
>
>>I would like to turn off my NeXT at night.  [...]
> [...]
>However, unless there are good reasons for you to turn off your machine,
>I wouldn't suggest it, as there are many arguments that profess that 
>continuous operation is a bit more healthy for (UNIX) machines than frequent
>power-up/power-downs.

It _is_ more healthy for _any_ machine, especially if it has a hard disk.
Electrical transients and mechanical stresses originating from startups
and shutdowns are hard on components.

At the University of Puebla, where I used to work, there _still_ is a PC
clone with a 20 Mb disk that has not been turned off in almost seven
years, except for power failures.  It has given no trouble whatsoever.

Best regards,

Gerardo "missing his NeXTstation" Cisneros
-- 
Dr. Gerardo Cisneros		|Cray Research de M'exico, S.A. de C.V.
gerardo.cisneros@cray.com	|Camino a Sta. Teresa 480-A #302
(+52+5)622-8584			|14020 Tlalpan, D.F., MEXICO
 Anything I said sound like an opinion? Then it's no one's but my own.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: blommer@euler.eecs.umich.edu (Michael Alan Blommer)
Subject: printing pages in reverse order
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:04:05 GMT

This may be a FAQ, but I have not found the answer anywhere.  Does anyone now  
how to reverse the order in which the NeXT printer prints out pages?  That is,  
how can I make so that the printer begins printing with the first page of a  
document instead of the last page of a document?

Thanks in advance,
Mike
blommer@engin.umich.edu
From: horde@reed.edu (Mr. Heiji Horde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: COPS on NeXT
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:20:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Aug18.192028.18146
Organization: Twisted Genius Rehabilitation Center, a Division of MHE
Disclaimer: This post does not represent the opinion of Reed College.

In article <1992Aug18.181839.27753@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) writes:
>The known security holes were fixed have been plugged in 3.0. What was  
>first thought to be a security hole in 3.0 was discovered about a week  
>ago, but it turns out to only be a hole if you are running with a ROM  
>version that never made it outside of NeXT. So it isn't a hole.

Wow, did they fix the IFS hole too?

>NeXT does provide source if you buy a source license. Last I checked, it  
>was $10,000.

Okay...that is true. But for the sysadmins of a small college, this is not
  a feasible option.

All we really wanted to do is make Zilla work on other machines, so
  you could run it in a mixed network. But when one of the other
  admins went to ask Richard Crandall about this the reply was basically
  "No, and don't even try".

Oh, yeah, we also wanted to install a hack of ours to fix the idle time
  for someone who logged in via the workspace.

Sort of annoying that there is an attitude of 'run this on our computers
  and no one elses'. Sorry, but the world is not made completely out
  of one company's platforms. Being able to port useful programs around
  is a really nice thing.

	-Heiji

===========================================================================
 Mr. Heiji Horde    (Non NeXT mail only please)     e-mail: horde@reed.edu
   All insane acts are done in affiliation with Madd Hacker Enterprises
              "I am not a economics major. I am a human being"
From: lfahnoe@kegworks.mn.org (Larry Fahnoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to map bad blocks on a scsi disk?
Keywords: scsi bad-blocks
Date: 15 Aug 92 00:51:42 GMT
Organization: The Kegworks, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Last eve I wrote about disk problems:
>I've recently run into my first disk errors on my cube's scsi disk and am
>looking for ways to map them to a bad block area on the drive and out of
>the file system.  I've looked at disk(8) but this does not seem to offer a

Vince DeMarco <vince@whatnxt.cuc.ab.ca> sent me mail suggesting the reasb
utility that he'd ftp'd from NeXT; I got it and it worked.  Not being the
trusting sort, I did recompile before running it.

My system is still running OS 2.0, and the drive in question is a Segate
Wren VI.  Robert Lutwak <robert@neon.mit.edu> wrote me saying that he had
tried the same program on his Wren VII, but with no luck.  Robert did not
say what version of the OS he was running, and I'm not sure that it matters.

FTP information:
   Host: next.com
   Location: /pub/Misc/Utilities/reasb/*

--Larry

-- 
Larry Fahnoe                        Cellular One
612/832-7616                        7900 S. Xerxes Ave, Suite 301
lfahnoe@kegworks.mn.org             Bloomington, MN  55431
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mcnichol@terminator.psy.syr.edu (Brendan T. McNichols)
Subject: Spaces in filenames
Reply-To: mcnichol@mailbox.syr.edu
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 14:47:27 EDT

Hi all,

I have the following script which I modified from an earlier post by Jim  
Kiraly to search through the entire filesystem and delete all old files  
in .NextTrash directories.  

# ---  Empty the Recycler(s)   --- Changed by Brendan on August 10, 1992
# from an earlier version posted by Jim Kiraly to comp.sys.next.sysadmin 
#
# Search through entire filesystem looking for .NextTrash directories.
# Save the list in the variable trashlist. For every .NextTrash directory 
# found in the previous command, find and delete all files that are more 
# than 1 day old.
trashlist=`find / -type d -name .NextTrash -prune -print`
for j in $trashlist 
  do
    echo 'Removing files more than 1 day old from recycler: '$j
#    find $j -ctime +1 -depth -exec rm -rf {};
  done

Unfortunatly, the script does not work if one of the paths in the  
trashlist variable has a space in it.  When the for loop gets to the path  
with the space in it, it thinks that the path is actually two paths.   
Anyone know how I would go about fixing this problem?  Can anyone think  
of a better way of writing this script?

Thanks very much in advance,
Brendan

--
Brendan T. McNichols, Computer Support                (315) 443-9577
Psyracuse U. Sychology Dept.             mcnichol@psy.syr.edu (NeXT)
430 Huntington Hall                                 mcnichol@syr.edu
Syracuse, NY 13244
From: kenb@amc.com (Ken Birdwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Hooking up a single NeXT and a single PC
Date: 16 Aug 92 22:39:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: amc.1992Aug16.223907.7035
Distribution: pnw
Organization: Applied Microsystems, Redmond, WA

(This is only supposed to have local distribution, so if you're out 
of the WA, OR, V.BC area ignore this message)


I looking for someone to help me hook up my NeXT and PC with a 
ethernet connection.  I have a Western Digital 16bit ethernet card, 
a 20ft cable, and all the NCSA Telnet stuff (as well as the SOSS software),
but try as I might I can't get the two to find each other.  I don't
actually get any errors, I just can't figure out how to set them up so that 
the PC's Telnet can find my NeXT.  Setting up the NeXT also seems to be 
a problem because almost all of the documentation is about  setting up 
NetInfo, and about connecting up to a existing network.  Unfortunitly, I 
don't have a existing network to connect to, just two lonely boxes.

What I'm looking for is someone to come over to my basement and help me 
set them up.  If you're willing but would like some reimbursment, that's 
fine. 

Ken Birdwell - 746-1415
Bellevue WA.

[a serial connection is way too slow, I need to transfer several 1-5MB files
back and forth each day]

-- 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: List of what's fixed in 3.0?
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:24:17 GMT


Now that officially 3.0 has gone to the presses, perhaps  
someone in the know could post a list what bugs have been  
fixed.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: Have tty and login time troubles been fixed in 3.0?
Reply-To: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:03:41 GMT

horde@reed.edu (Mr. Heiji Horde) writes:
>Oh, yeah, we also wanted to install a hack of ours to fix the idle time
>  for someone who logged in via the workspace.

This is an annoying bug, I hope it's been fixed in 3.0.

Also, has anyone else had problems changing the mode on their tty?
Sometimes when I'm on the console and I open up multiple terminal
windows, the one that goes with ttyp2 sometimes balks at the "mesg n"
in my login script, complaining that I don't own the tty so I can't
change it's mode.

I've had this happen under different terminals so I don't think the
terminal program I'm using is at fault.

It's very weird in that it doesn't happen all the time, or with any
pattern that I've noticed.  I thought that if the tty worked once, it
would work all the time, for anyone as it should.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
-- No NeXTmail please
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,misc.legal.computing
From: lemke@MITL.COM (Kennedy Lemke)
Subject: "webster" copyright?
Originator: lemke@narnia.MITL.COM
Organization: Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:37:31 GMT

I recently ftp'ed code for webster and websterd with eyes
toward installing these programs in our heterogeneous UNIX
environment.  In the process of obtaining the BTREE and LIBTEXT
libraries as per the documentation (to get the "thesaurus"
aspect of the program working), I received the following
comments from a representative from NeXT:


	> Note:  Also, I must tell you that using any software to extract
	> Websters definitions or Thesaurus entries from a non-NeXT
	> machine is a violation of the Webster's copyright and an
	> infringement of the NeXT Software License Agreement.
	> 
	> 
	> Merriam-Websters is concerned about an abuse of their copyright
	> and have expressed a willingness to license it's use on a
	> royalty-bearing basis.  Here is how they can be contacted for
	> further information:
	> 
	> Merriam-Webster, Inc.
	> 47 Federal Street
	> P.O. Box 281
	> Springfield, MA  01102
	> Attention:  Jim Withgott, Vice President

The above is not a legal statement, obviously, but it certainly
informs me of a possible legal problem.  I hope someone can help
me with a couple questions about this:

	(1) Is this policy a well-known fact?  Does anyone know
	    more about this?  Has anyone written the company (Webster)
	    asked about this or perhaps even licensed the use of
	    the "webster" program on non-next machines?

	(2) There was no mention of this in the webster sources (or the
	    NeXT faq list) that I saw, so what can I imply from this?

	    (a) Can I run webster on all our UNIX platforms because
		the program that is actually extracting information
		(websterd) is running on a NeXT?
	    (b) Can I run websterd on a NeXT and run webster on all
	        our other NeXTs but not on any other UNIX platforms?
	    (c) Would it be OK (legal), for example, to use scenario
		(b) just above, and then on all other non-NeXT UNIX
		machines have "webster" be a one-line shell script
		that does: "rsh somenextmachine webster $*"?  Or would
		this still be considered a violation?

I know that I cannot expect complete and accurate answers based
on the non-legal information from NeXT that I included above, but
I would appreciate hearing some comments/discussion, especially
from anyone who knows more about this or perhaps has contacted
Merriam-Websters.  Please send email rather than posting followups,
and I'll post a summary to these groups.

				Kennedy Lemke
				Network and UNIX Systems Administrator
				Postmaster
				Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory
				182 Nassau Street, Third Floor
				Princeton, New Jersey  08542
Work Phone: (609) 497-4600
Fax Phone:  (609) 497-4013	Email: lemke@MITL.COM
From: djohnson@cup.portal.com (Dean Michael Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Boot process setting Ethernet=IP adress
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 12:41:35 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

I've run across an interesting problem. I just established a SLIP connection
with Marble's Teleconnect to a local outfit. Everything works (well almost).
I have been having problems connecting to the remote LAN, but Internet
connections work just fine. Running netsat it looks like all traffic to
the remote LAN is going through my etherport not through the gateway. After
looking in the rc.boot there is a line setting the ethernet equal to the
internet address. I thought that they should be different? Any ideas about
a fix?

Any help appreciated!
Dean
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: oneill@cs.sfu.ca (Richard O'Neill)
Subject: Re: Virus via mail
Keywords: Is it possible?
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 04:41:50 GMT

Heiji Horde <horde@reed.edu> writes:
>In article [...] szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) writes:
>> Would it be possible for someone to spread a virus via NeXTMail?
>
> There have also been rumours of people working on Postscript viruses.

Well, I don't know of people *working* on them, but I'm sure they *are*
possible. I've explained how I think they can be done in a previous
posting, so I won't bother saying again this time.

> But those would only work if you are a public window server (I think).

Wrong (from what I can tell).

You can really do easy damage if someone has re-enabled the file operators
by typing 'dwrite Mail _NXBypassNSC YES' in a terminal window, but this
has nothing to do with "Public Window Server".

"Public Window Server" controls who can access the window server. Since
the EPS mail-bomb is run by mail with your user-id, this has 'security
feature' has preventative effect on mail-bombs.

Regards,

    Richard.
-- 
Composing a suitably apt and witty | richard@smaug.questor.wimsey.bc.ca
signature and disclaimer is left   | oneill@fornax.UUCP | NeXTmail OK, but
as an exercise for the reader.     | oneill@cs.sfu.ca   | not >100K OK!
From: fosdal@phenxm.physics.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo Backups?
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:12:48 GMT
Reply-To: fosdal@phenxm.physics.wisc.edu
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences

I am having problems with frequent netinfo crashes.  Is there any way
to take a picture of the current set up adn easily restore it?  I have
tried just copying /etc/netinfo/... and /etc/hostconfig but it didn't seem
to work.
        Thanks,
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Steven R. Fosdal         | 1150 University Ave, Madison WI 53706
                         | Phone: (608)262-8947  Fax: (608)262-8628
NeXT System Maintenance  | fosdal@phenxm.physics.wisc.edu (NeXT mail o.k.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi
From: kinch@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Dave Kinchlea)
Subject: Exporting NextStep 3.0 release cdrom from SGI
Organization: /u/kinch/.organization
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:37:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Keywords: cdrom, filesystem type, exported NextStep distributions


Howdy:
	In anticipation of the 3.0 release on cdrom, I would like to
determine the possibility of using the cdrom drive on our SGI Personal
Iris box. I already have determined that I can export the drive, I did
so using a SGI cdrom, what concerns me is what kind of format NeXT is
using for the distribution cdrom and whether SGI can read that format.
As this really is two questions, I am cross-posting to both
comp.sys.next.sysadmin and comp.sys.sgi (hoping that each group will
answer the question specific to it), followups directed to
comp.sys.next.sysadmin.

	So, for you NeXT folks, what is the filesystem type of the
distribution cdroms? and for you SGI fols, what filesystem types can
be read by the SGI cdrom driver?

	Thanks for your help, you may email me and I will summerize if
there is interest.

cheerskinch
Dave Kinchlea            
email:	 	kinch@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca
Snail-mail:	System Administrator/Research Programmer
		John P. Robarts Research Institute.
		London, Ont, Canada
A Real Live Voice: 663-5777-x4406

".... 2 to the power 759 million to 1 and falling ..." HHGTG
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dirk@kalium.physik.tu-berlin.de (Dirk Schwarzhans)
Subject: SLIP crashes 'routed'?
Keywords: SLIP routed
Reply-To: dirk@kalium.physik.tu-berlin.de
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 17:15:32 GMT

Hello,

We configured one of our NeXTs as server for 9 SLIP connections. For  
connecting to remote systems it was necessary to start "routed".  
Immediately after starting "routed" everything works fine. After some time  
the connections crashed. In the log-file of "routed" are many error  
messages like "sendto: no buffer space available". 

Is "routed" buggy? What must be done to use a NeXT to handle SLIP  
connections to remote locations.

Dirk Schwarzhans
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: LogoutHook question
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 22:39:34 GMT

I know that if a LoginHook exits with a 0, the login proceeds
normally.  If it exits with a 1, then the login kicks back out to
the prompt.
I want to do the same sort of thing with LogoutHook.  If I exit the
LogoutHook program with a 1, I want it to dump the user back into
the workspace, not letting them log out.  I tried it, and it doesn't
work.  Anyone have any idea how I might do this? (something
undocumented?)
BTW, in case you're wondering why I don't want to let the user log
out, it's because I want to force them to go back and reduce their
disk usage before they log out. 
-- 
David Lemson                                                 (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant  / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu                 UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson 
NeXTMail accepted                                   BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling)
Subject: Re: Virus via mail
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 21:28:16 GMT

In article <170rv0INNso@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art  
Isbell) writes:
> At least in 3.0 PR2 Mail, if you double-click an executable in a mail  
message,
> a Caution Panel opens, but it's message is pretty mild:
> 
> "This file is executable"
> 
> The Panel allows the user to continue or cancel.  But I'd suggest a  
stronger
> message (maybe the 3.0 release is better in this respect).

No. The final release has the same message.

M Carling
Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
--
I believe George Bush, Anita Hill, and Pinocchio.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jhall@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu (JeffHallgren)
Subject: TransSys SLIP help needed
Keywords: SLIP, TransSys 
Reply-To: jhall@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:39:04 GMT

	I've been trying to connect my home NeXT (no network) to my work  
NeXT (on a subnet) using TranSys Dialup-IP. I'm having difficulty with the  
routing, netmasking and broadcast aspects. The modems are working fine and  
the login to bring up SLIP works fine but, no packets are ever moved. None  
of the log files indicate that errors are occurring. I need someone  
comfortable with IP routing and SLIP to help me set this up.
	I emailed nextcomm@carrara.bos.marble.com with log file exerpts  
and ifconfig info but have not received any reply. Yes, its an ugly  
(murky?) subject, but, I think with just a little tweaking it'll work. If  
you have time and think you could help please contact me.
	Thanks,
	Jeff

"Lay the secret on me, of man's red fire" - King Louie (Disney: The Jungle  
Book)
From: tom@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Tom Arnow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SPEED!
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:10:37 GMT
Reply-To: tom@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Tom Arnow)
Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio

We have a network setup with six NeXT. Recently, we added on three external  
hard drives and the system got much slower. The system was set up in such a  
way that many directories are mounted as file systems. For example,
/LocalLibrary 
/NextDeveloper
/NextLibrary/Literature
/NextLibrary/Documentation
/NextLibrary/References
/LocalApps
/usr/spool/mail
and various /clients 
are all mounted in this way. 
Could this contribute to the slow down?

Thank you
Tom Arnow