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From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 7.0: Apple Press Release of 18 Dec
Message-ID: <9481@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 28 Dec 89 17:31:53 GMT
References: <265@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Reply-To: mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Organization: Baka Industries, Ithaca, New York
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In article <265@limbo.Intuitive.Com> taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes:
> [Describing Apple's December 18, 1989 press release]
> ...
>System 7.0 will include Finger (tm) 7.0

Finder, actually.  Apple's System software doesn't include anything like
the finger command in UNIX, though with the Responder INIT in your System
Folder, several programs will let you see who else is on the network.  These
include CheckNet from Farallon, and AT View, a shareware desk accessory from
Randy Dees.

>A new core technology, called Macintosh FileShare, will also be
>delivered in System 7.0 as an integral extension to the Finder.  This
>new technology is another step in Apple's integration of networking with
>the Macintosh Operating System.  It will allow users to share their
>local files, without a file server, with any other computer running
>AppleShare client software.

Hmm, I wonder what this will do to such products as TOPS and PSN.  It
sounds like this will render PSN entirely obsolete, since it allows the
sharing of local files, without a file server, with any other computer
running AppleShare (or other AFP-compliant) client software.  The TOPS
product line should do a bit better, since they have versions for PCs and
UNIX systems.  It'll be interesting to see what IPT (PSN's creators) do.


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