Anyone here try using FrameMaker ver 4 with it's Tooltalk interface
to Sun's File Manager (Drag & Drop) inside of an AFS file system?
(AFS 3.3 SunOS 4.1.3 OpenWindows 3.0)

I get a real bad feeling about ToolTalk working with AFS, here's the
error message...

>Tooltalk error at line 606, status=1028.
>TT_ERR_FILE     File object could not be found.
>
>One possible reason for this error is that the filesystem containing the
>file is not NFS exported.  Note that Sun's DeskSet utilities will
>write temporary files into /tmp, which may not be exported.

Tracing the Frame program "fmtooltalk" (the program that a double click
in filemgr calls) will show you that fmtooltalk makes some system calls
to read /etc/mtab and never tries to open() the file... but exits with
the above message... right after stat()ing the /etc/mtab file (to prevent
race conditions???).  Our guess is that it sees the file is not USF and
assumes NFS - wrong it's AFS!  (Yes it works if the file is in USF space).

FrameMaker reports that there is an open report with Tooltalk and temporary
mounted file systems - may be related.

Please help if you can - if not FYI.

David Koontz                                    ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Project Mosaic Consultant                       (704) 547-4894
College of Engineering                          Smith 220
University of North Carolina at Charlotte       Charlotte, NC  28223

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