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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: What is the AppleShare "Shared Environment"?
Message-ID: <1257@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 11:32:19 GMT
References: <1244@ccnysci.UUCP> <25568@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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In article <25568@apple.Apple.COM> dyson@Apple.COM (Patrick Dyson) writes:
>In article <1244@ccnysci.UUCP> alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>>I have been skirting the edges of TOPS/AppleShare compatibility for a while
>>now. Suddenly, with FoxBase+/Mac, I find myself over that edge and into the
>>abyss (Mixed metaphors champ '88 :-)
>>
>>It seems that AppleShare and it's clones (NetWare/Mac, AppleShare PC, 3Com[?])
>>all have this think called the "Shared Environment" which I have never even
>>heard of. It's NOT AFP. What is it, what is it used for, and where is the
>>documention???
>
>There is a chapter in Inside Macintosh vol V that talks about file manager
>extensions in a shared environment. It provides some insights as to what
>to expect from external file systems.


I have read that chapter. Let me clarify things a bit.

I spoke at length to the TOPS product manager last week. He told me that
the reason TOPS didn't support certain programs (such as FoxBase) was that
is didn't support the "Shared Environment" (his words). He said that this
was NOT AFP, and NOT byte-range locking, permissions, etc. (what IM-V covers).

Now, does anyone have any idea what he was talking about, or was I lead
astray? My impression is that he either wasn't sure what he was talking
about or didn't want to 'fess up to the whole sordid story.

Wishing for a straight answer,

Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.uucp