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From: johnroc@ucsco.UCSC.EDU (John Rocchio (x2578))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: HyperUnix 1.4.0:  Mail and Unix services from HyperCard
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Date: 11 Sep 89 01:58:28 GMT
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In article <485@cpdaux.UUCP> cpdaux!steve@apple.com (Steve Lemke) writes:
>In article <9034@saturn.ucsc.edu> sirkm@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Greg Anderson) writes:
>}HyperUnix 1.4.0 is now available for anonymous ftp from ssyx.ucsc.edu
>}(128.114.133.1).  The 'automac' daemons have also been updated.
>}
>}HyperUnix provides mail and other unix services from HyperCard using
>}either a serial interface or an AUFS interface (the 'automac' daemons).
>
>Could you or someone else possibly explain what exactly this does?  What is
>an AUFS interface?  If I have a Mac II running A/UX connected to other Macs
>via Ethernet, would HyperUnix do anything interesting for me?  Don't mean to
>sound stupid, but I hate wasting time downloading stuff I don't need, and I
>just thought I'd check first...
>

What it is is a HyperCard Home stack and set of "sub-stacks" that write
text to a mounted AUFS volume.  Meanwhile, there is a Unix daemon running
that checks for this file and if it exists, executes it.  Usually the text
written is a Unix command, for example "finger joe".  Unix executes the 
command and writes the results to another file.  HyperCard reads this file
and displays the results on your screen.  We have provided interfaces for
common commands like finger, shell, mail, etc.  We have also provided 
samples of local hacks to the UC System library database, SAS statistical
programs and webster dictionary service.  New services(buttons) can be easily
created by simply padding the given arguments with the necessary Unix info.
One way to provide access to these types of services is with the supersrv
program available from ssyx.ucsc.edu(128.114.133.1) in /pub/unix-misc.

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