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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: AppleTalk ZIP Protocol
Message-ID: <6629@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 26 Feb 89 13:05:15 GMT
References: <4516@hubcap.UUCP> <6616@hoptoad.uucp> <781@internal.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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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

In article <781@internal.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.com (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>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.

Quite right; thanks for the correction.  It's been too many months since
I did any network programming....

>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.

The code was from a server which was meant to serve at most eight
zones.  If you have fifty zones, then you would need seven (background)
servers.  I thought I'd stripped out all the dependencies on that
environment, but I guess I missed one.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and
 danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning."
    -- Aleister Crowley, THE BOOK OF LIES