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From: robert@polari.UUCP (robert)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Where is AppleTalk?
Message-ID: <1074@polari.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 89 19:29:42 GMT
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Reply-To: robert@.UUCP ()
Organization: PolarServ, Seattle WA
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The solution to your problem should be simple. But alas ...

Appletalk version 19 is in ROM on the MacPlus. The SE and II have later
versions of Appletalk in ROM. Some of the toolbox routines implemented
after version 19 (the newer routines documented in volume 5 of Inside
Mac) won't work with the AppleTalk drivers in the MacPlus ROM.

To update the drivers on the MacPlus to version 48, Apple produced an
Init that you simply drop in the system folder. After rebooting, calls
to Appletalk use the new drivers, which are in the resource fork of the
Init. I think this Init was being sold by APDA as an "Appletalk Upgrade"
awhile back.

Now, you want to know how to get this "Appletalk Upgrade", right? Well,
here's where the fun starts. APDA was being managed for Apple by a group
which is now called the Tech Alliance (used to be the APPLE Co-op). In 
January, Apple decided to start managing APDA itself. Since then, this
"Appletalk Upgrade" has not appeared in the APDA Catalog. I got a copy
of the Init from a friend. I haven't tried to call Apple about this.

If someone from Apple Computers is reading this, could you please check
into this matter and let us all know how to get the new drivers. If I
want to develop a commercial application using the newer Appletalk routines
documented in volume 5 of Inside Mac, I would need to distribute the new
drivers with the product (otherwise it won't work on a MacPlus). How much
is the licensing fee in this case? Can these new drivers (perhaps in the
form of an Init) be distributed for free?

Any information would be very much appriciated.

Robert Riebman
NorthWest Information Technology
P.O. Box 3156
Redmond, WA 98073
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