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From: cck@cunixc.columbia.edu (Charlie C. Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Apple PC AppleShare / CAP Incompatibility
Keywords: AppleShare PC CAP Bug
Message-ID: <932@cunixc.columbia.edu>
Date: 26 Aug 88 01:22:50 GMT
References: <13625@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: cck@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Charlie C. Kim)
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Austin,

You are being hit by two different things.  First, Aufs does not
support short files names and a couple of other minor calls which are
necessary for AppleShare PC (and ProDOS if that version exists yet).
This is quite unfortunate, but is not something we plan on changing
soon, if ever.  Second, the problem with printing from the PC to the
CAP server is a problem with the AppleShare PC card: as I remember it,
you can get the ROMS replaced and things work right (based on some
information I got from an Apple guy who was trying to find out how
widespread this problem might be -- but I could only guess at the # of
people who had CAP because very few people had been sending in their
WHOIS files so I guess the problem faded into the background).  I'm
not sure who in Apple could help you do something about this
particualar problem...  Not having an Apple PC AppleTalk card, I can't
even guess what the actual problem is (hard to run a AT/PC bus card in
a MicroBus machine) -- it might be a problem with every off-"local
cable" server.

Charlie C. Kim
Systems & Networking Group
Center for Computing Activities
Columbia Unviersity