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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: AppleTalk Interface bug in Think C?
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Date: 13 Feb 91 02:42:59 GMT
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In article <1991Feb12.130352.25787@nada.kth.se>, d90-erl@dront.nada.kth.se (Erland Lewin) writes:
> 
> 
>   We are having a very strange problem with AppleTalk in ThinkC v4.02.
> 
>   We have written a client and a server program. The server uses atpOpenSocket
>  and NBPRegister, then the Client finds him via NBPLookup. So far everything 
>  works perfectly.
> 
>   But then the Server does an atpGetRequest, and the Client an
>  atpRequest. This does not work. When the same calls with the same
>  parameters are made in MPW Pascal, everything works perfectly.

Are you using the "new" preferred AppleTalk interface as documented
in Inside Macintosh volume V?  It appears you aren't.  Check them
out, the old routines (that use Network Events) are not suppose to
be used any more.

-- michael


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