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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple System 7 (Mac system7)
Message-ID: <1991May24.010748.20699@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 24 May 91 01:07:48 GMT
References: <1991May23.213615.6800@crash.cts.com>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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mdavis@pro-sol.cts.com (Morgan Davis) writes:

>2.  You'll need to connect your Mac and IIGS with LocalTalk cabling and
>    connectors.

Only if one of them is already using LocalTalk. If there are only two machines
and nothing else you can connect them with just a 'null modem' RS-422 cable
that has male Mini-DIN 8's on each end. 

>3.  Use PhoneNet connectors and standard RJ-11 modular phone cables
>    instead of Apple(R) Brand AppleTalk(R) parts.  You'll save a bundle.

If you have to use LocalTalk this is very true.

>4.  PhoneNet products are real popular, but I've had good performance
>    from other vendors (HyperNet, TurboNet, etc.) for about half the
>    cost of PhoneNet brand parts.

Also true. We've been buying from HyperNet for a while and they work fine.

>5.  Both your Mac and IIGS will require a PhoneNet connector box, they
>    plug into the Printer Port.

On the Mac they do. On the GS you can use either port (see below).

>8.  Make sure that AppleTalk is enabled in the IIGS's Slots control panel.

This includes setting the slot matching the port you are using for AppleTalk
to anything other than Printer/Modem port. The actual setting is different
depending on which ROM you have.

>ON THE SYSTEM 7 MACINTOSH:
[ ... ]

>ON THE SYSTEM 6.0.7 APPLE IIGS:

I think you mean 5.0.4 ...

[ ... ]

>Filenames
>---------
>There appears to be some trouble on the IIGS in accessing folders and files
>on on the Mac that ARE NOT legal ProDOS file names.  You'll want to make
>sure that all the files and folders on the Mac have names that are legal to
>ProDOS so that you can access them from your IIGS.

This is not a problem for real GS programs. P8 programs (who are expecting
prodos naming syntax) and GS programs that use direct block access for file
system stuff (like the APW/Orca directory command) will get an 'access not
allowed' because AppleShare quite rightly does not support direct block I/O.
 
[ ... ]

Also, Personal AppleShare seems to have a bug in that it occasionally sets
the auxtype to $FFFFFFFF, which is a legal GS/OS auxtype but not a legal
ProDOS auxtype -- attempting to copy such a file to a ProDOS disk results
in an error $53 (parameter out of range). This problem is similar to CAP/AUFS,
a PD unix AppleShare server, which simply does not set ProDOS file info at all,
and returns whatever garbage value was in memory when the file's info structure
was first created. I wrote a simple INIT to fix the AUFS problem, but it won't
fix the Personal AppleShare problem because the primary filetype is always
legal. All I need to do is reorder a few comparisons and it will do that too.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu