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Re: Fwd: imaging software question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Griffith)
Tue Dec 21 16:15:18 1999
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:15:06 -0500
To: Kris Nyzio <knyzio@mit.edu>, mac-dev@mit.edu
From: Chris Griffith <cg@MIT.EDU>
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FWIW, the Help Desk uses Assimilator for maintaining our lab of Macs.
Fetch isn't in the same league as Assimilator or RevRDist. The
latter two attempt to make the local machine's hard drive look like
an "image" on a remote server.
Chris
At 3:34 PM -0500 12/21/99, Kris Nyzio wrote:
>Hi mac-dev,
>The IS home pages team received this email question and I'd like to see if
>anyone on your team could assist this person. I looked up RevRdist on the
>web and it seems to be a Unix-type program for Macintosh. The page says
>"RevRdist logs on to a file server (usually an AppleShare server) and
>copies files from the server to the client as needed."
>http://www.purdue.edu/revrdist/welcome.html
>I am not sure what the MIT equivalent might be for a program like this,
>maybe Fetch?
>Any info you could share would be greatly appreciated.
>Thanks,
>Kris
>
>
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> >From: Susie Gaskins <gaskinsm@jmu.edu>
> >Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 16:58:22 -0500
> >To: is-www@MIT.EDU
> >Subject: imaging software question
> >Priority: NORMAL
> >Mime-Version: 1.0
> >
> >Hi, my name is Susie Gaskins and I work in the Computing Support
> >Department at James Madison University in Virginia. We are currently
> >in the process of researching different types of imaging software to
> >use to set up our university computers in labs to make sure that they
> >are operating correctly. We currently use RevRdist, but would like to
> >find a replacement for this. If you could email me back and tell me
> >what program you use and if you are satisfied with its performance and
> >where I might go to get more information about it, I would greatly
> >appreciate it. Thank you so much!
> >
> >-Susie Gaskins
> >
> >--
> >
> >Susie Gaskins
> >gaskinsm@jmu.edu
> >Computing Support
> >James Madison University
> >
>
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