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From: bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: TOPS and ethertalk
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Date: 12 Apr 88 20:16:03 GMT
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In article <14521@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu
(Mark Interrante) writes:

>I have a Mac II with ethertalk and the NCSA Telnet software and
>I am interested in file sharing (ala NFS).  I have been told
>that TOPS allows the Suns to be a file server and the Mac disk
>to be accessable to the Sun net.  Is this an accurate description? 
>Can I run NCSA Telnet while TOPS is running?
>
>Thanks for any information.

Yes, Mark, TOPS will indeed allow you to use the Sun as a remote
file server for the Macintosh.  You can mount a folder via TOPS
and still use the network for other applications such as Telnet
or printing to your LaserWriter.  It works very nicely.

--Barry Kort