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From: bjones@DARTMOUTH.CSNET (Bruce Jones)
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Subject: Re: appletalk length limits
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I have spoken to Apple technical reps at great lengths about this subject.
I too wanted to more or less rig my own connectors.  Apple insists though that
anything longer than the supplied cable will cause you problems.  Experiments
I tried confirmed this.