Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!samsung!umich!yale!cs.yale.edu!newsbase!majumdar From: majumdar@garnet.cs.yale.edu (aloke majumdar) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: CAP6.0 --- problems & future directions Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 11:22:29 GMT Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Reply-To: majumdar@cs.yale.edu Organization: Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: garnet.systemsx.cs.yale.edu We've had CAP6.0 running native ethertalk on a SPARC 1 (SunOS 4.1) for several weeks now and I'm quite happy with it in general. We've done some stress testing on it and hope to have some benchmark figures compiled in a couple of weeks. I'll post those to the net when they're available. Right now I have some queries about future CAP directions and some notes on problems with the current release. 1) Is work being done on getting CAP to work with ethertalk phase 2? I'd be willing to contribute my time to getting it done, but I don't want to start from scratch if someone already has a lot of code that they haven't got around to finishing. This is going to be increasingly important in the coming months as more and more people make the switch. 2) I've had complaints from a user about PC Appleshare not being able to mount AUFS. So far I haven't got any followup details, but I wondered if other people have had the same problem. 3) Have the patches to "lwsrv" to capture the new style laserprep (with split AppleDicts) been folded into the release? Incidentally, we got "lwsrv" to work with an LPS40 hosted by a VAX/VMS machine, but I had to use a modified AppleDict in order to do so. I haven't yet had to modify the latest version(s) of the laserprep, but will inevitably have to do so in the next couple of months. 4) I'd heard that Apple had bought the rights to CAP (whatever that means). Is there any truth to this? If so, how is it going to effect those of us who have started on relying on this superb piece of net-supported software? Will future versions have to be purchased from Apple? Are they going to continue supporting software that runs on other vendor's machines? etc. Aloke Majumdar Yale Computer Center