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From: jeff@drexel.UUCP (Jeff White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Transferring Files between Macs over AppleTalk: possible?
Summary: Tops is probably the only AppleTalk solution
Message-ID: <818@drexel.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 88 16:53:43 GMT
References: <782@tank.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Drexel University, Phila., Pa.
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In article <782@tank.uchicago.edu>, gsbrob1@apcvxa.uchicago.edu writes:
> 
> There's a fellow here who has bought a new Mac with an internal hard disk and
> he wants to transfer files from his old Mac, which also has an internal hard
> disk.  He wants to move the files from the old HD to the new one. Short of
> actually swapping HD's, he wants to know if there's any way to do this without
> transferring the files to another medium, such as floppies.  Specifically he
> wanted to know if it were possible to just send the files over AppleTalk.  
> Does any PD program exist which will do this?  Or is there another way?
> 

  Someone already mentioned using a direct connection with file transfer
programs.  My thought would be to either find programs that can automatically 
transfer a number of files (of folders), or else to use some archive program
(Stuffit?) to come all your files into one, send that file, and then de-archive
on the new system.
  As far as Appletalk goes, I would think that would want a package that
supported each Mac as peers, not a standard client/server.  Programs like
MacServe (and maybe AppleShare) require you to dedicate a Mac to be the server
(no problem), but at least with MacServe, they create their onw server
partition which can't access Mac files already on the Desktop.  Tops is the
only package I know where the installation is easy (just install a DA and 
autobootup code) and allows total compatibility with all the Mac files you
already have.  If all you want to do is this file transfer, I don't think
the (~$200 software + $25 Appletalk) x 2 is a realistic price to pay.

						Jeff White
						Drexel University - ECE Dept.
						rutgers!bpa!drexel!jeff