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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Local/AppleTalk Connectivity in MacApp
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Date: 4 Jan 91 16:26:00 GMT
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In article <1991Jan3.221839.21979@athena.cs.uga.edu>, fore@athena.cs.uga.edu (Howard Fore) writes:
> 
> Ok, you MacAppies:                     
> 
> 1. How well is MacApp at dealing with Apple/LocalTalk communication? Are there
>    prewritten methods and classes to deal with this? I need to write a program
>    that will communicate across a LocalTalk LAN to retrieve a text file from
>    a hard drive. Will I have to write the routines myself for going across  
>    LocalTalk? Any advice?

No built-in support.  I'll be releasing some classes for using ADSP
with MacApp in a couple of months - it's part of a book on AppleTalk
programming that I'm writing for Addison-Wesley.  Unfortunately, they're
not ready for public consumption just yet.

> 2. The APDAlog lists MacApp 2.0 as being available on a CD as well as 10 disks.
>    It also mentions various "goodies" that are on the said CD with MacApp. What
>    are these "goodies"?

The biggest (literally) thing on the MacApp CD is the precompiled
libraries.  They have precompiled versions of MacApp that have various
combinations of compiler flags and such.  This can save you some time
UNLESS you want to use an updated version, then they're worthless.

There is also a tutorial and some unsupported classes too.

> 3. (To the general public) Does anyone have the source code for Public Folder
>    or know where I can get it or the code for something similar?

Sorry, Public Folder is Copyright Claris Corporation.  Although they
make it available for free, it's still their program.

> Thanks.

Good luck!

- michael, author of Public Folder in a previous life


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