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From: hayes@Apple.COM (Jim Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Applelink to Internet gateway.... ???
Message-ID: <45338@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 90 06:18:03 GMT
References: <34255@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., ECO Networking Group
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rpA-Inc@cup.portal.com (RP and Ainc) writes in article <34255@cup.portal.com>:
>
>There is an urgent need to send some files between AppleLink and an
>Internet account (this one on Portal, or a few others off UUNET).
>Is there a gateway machine that performs this task. If so, what
>is the appropriate syntax for this transaction (from both ends)...
>
>Please mail replies back to me (rpa-inc@cup.portal.com).
>

Well, I think this can be of general use to all.

Our wizard of a postmaster put together the current gateway that
Apple uses to transfer data from AppleLink to/from the internet.

The easiest way to do so is to binhex whatever you want to send
and:
	While on AppleLink, send to: user@internet.host@INTERNET#
				     hayes@ucsd.edu@INTERNET#

	From the Internet, send to: user@applelink.apple.com
				    hayes@applelink.apple.com

While not implemented yet, there are plans to automatically encode
internet "binhex" to the AppleLink attached file format, and, well, vice
versa.  I don't know when, and given Erik's constant load, probably not
for a while.


-- 
Jim Hayes, AppleTalk-TCP/IP Weenie
Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer Inc.

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