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From: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: MacNFS vs AppleShare
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Date: 12 Nov 90 17:27:37 GMT
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In article <4665@husc6.harvard.edu>, Cherry@Frodo.MGH.Harvard.EDU (J. Michael
Cherry) writes:
> If the primary computer to the end user is a Macintosh then I feel the 
> AppleShare approach would be best because NFS does not provide the icon 
> information. Please correct me if I am uninformed for I do not know much
> about either methods design. 

All of the NFS products that I have seen on the Macintosh give you icon 
information for the end user.  Ours most assuredly allows you to see all
files on the host as icons, you can move them, open them, do whatever you
would like to do with them, just as if they were on a local mac disk.

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