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From: rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: GS on Appletalk
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Date: 21 Sep 90 23:16:16 GMT
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kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kent Andrew Dickey) writes:

>The saga continues....


>Does the fact that I can get this far mean the network is AFP 2.0?  I
>plan to try to find out for sure tomorrow, but a lot seems to work,
>enough that it appears it HAS to be version 2.0.

Yes, but not 100%

>In conclusion, my main concern right now is to figure out why I can't
>copy files from the server...since I'd love to be able to backup my hard
>drive to the server.

This sounds like the same problem someone else was having a few months
back.

There is a public domain version of AppleTalk and AFP out for UNIX machines
from the U of Michigan, I believe.  The 'C' source code is available and
it is being used at a lot of Universities. It isn't 100% perfect,
though, and has some of the glitches you refer to when used with non-Mac
machines.  That may be your problem.  I don't know if any brave soul out
there has fixed the bugs or if the guys who wrote it have, but if so,
you may be able to get your system manager to upgrade.

Rick Fincher
rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu

>			Kent Dickey
>kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU