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From: lsr@Apple.com (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: AppleTalk ZIP Protocol
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Date: 24 Feb 89 22:44:11 GMT
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In article <6616@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:

> NBP names have a zones field; if you put a wildcard in this field, then
> the bridges will take care of sending your request to all zones and

Not true according to Inside AppleTalk & Inside Mac.  They both say that 
wildcards are allowed only on the object and type fields.  You can put an 
asterisk in the zone field to signify the current zone, but you can't use 
a wildcard to mean all zones.

The code that you gave works, provided all the zones fit into 1 response 
packet, which is definitely not true here (we have over 50 zones).  I also 
don't know why you pin reply.data to a maximum of 8; that should be the 
number of zones returned.



Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.

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