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From: lindahl@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Charlie Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: DEC LanWORKS for Macintosh (Was Re: MacX available ?)
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.221612.27770@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 19 Sep 90 22:16:12 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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In-Reply-To: SKG102@psuvm.psu.edu's message of 19 Sep 90 14:15:38 GMT

Scott George writes: 
>The only question I have
>here is that according to DEC their Mac client is only a paper license and that
>the software is on the TK50 or Magtape depending on which one you order, since
>the Mac reads none of these, how do you get the software? You have to already
>have a way to transfer files to your Mac from the VAX to get the connectivity
>tools that are supposed to do this. Silly, isn't it?  :-)

Does seem recursive, doesn't it? I asked the same question of DEC DIRECT and
got a straight answer: you load the file server software on the VAX 
from the tape, then use the newly-created AppleShare File Server 
to copy the other stuff (MacX, MacTERMINAL, etc) to your Mac. 

Note: all MACS come with the AppleShare capability in their systems; you
just have to have ETHERTALK or a LocalTalk interface to VMS (you MUST
have one or the other already, or you wouldn't be buying LANWORKS). 

Anyway, we'll find out how well this works next week when we get 
our LanWorks in the door. 

-- 
Charlie S. Lindahl
Automation and Robotics Research Institute
University of Texas at Arlington
Internet EMAIL: lindahl@evax.arl.utexas.edu