Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!anise.ac!ucbvax!TRINCC.BITNET!REWING
From: REWING@TRINCC.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: RE: Re: AppleTalk & IIgs
Message-ID: <8905092147.aa04333@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 May 89 02:41:00 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 16

Actually, you could drag copy something from the file server on
System 3.2, but this was *not* a kosher way to access the server.  Appleshare
was not meant for the Finder. In fact, it is possible for Finder to prompt
you with the dialog box "Please insert the disk "File Server"".  What happens
is that the Finder would screw up on any file or subdirectory that didn't
follow standard ProDOS naming conventions...real inconvenient on an Appleshare
server.  The new GS/OS 5.0 will change all that.  And thank God.  Since
I have no modem on my GS, most of the telecommunications programs I have
(ProTerm, ApplelinkPE, etc., but Zlink can!) can't handle a straight serial
connection to the our Northern Telecom SL-1 phone switch.  So I do most
of my downloads from the mac, and then use Apple File Exchange to swap
the files the the GS.  Having a common server download volume will make
my life *so* much easier.

--Rick Ewing
  Apple Atlanta