mss@DARTMOUTH.CSNET (03/11/86)
Hm, let's try once more. You need two additions to your system to make MacIP work. The first is the .MPP package which implements the Appletalk protocols (well, most of them, no ATP, which isn't used by MacIP). You can install .MPP by using the "Install Appletalk" application in the May '85 supplement. The second is a resource named "atpl" (note the lower case letters). This consist of "glue" between Pascal (Lisa or TML) and the MPP, sort of the same as osintf.rel for providing glue between "high level" OS calls and lower lever OS calls. WHy a resource instead of a Rel file? Ask Apple; I've got some partial answers and they aren't enlightening (primarily concerned with issues of future upward compatibility). Anyway, the atpl resource comes in the file ATAlk/ABPackage (which came with the Appletalk Developer's Handbook a while ago and with TML Pascal -- I do not recall if it came with the May supplement). You can move the atpl resource in with RMaker on the Lisa or with ResEdit on the Macintosh. See if that helps. I was trying to figure out if I can use the Kinetics box to send to a random Ethernet host, e.g., I'll put a pup packet into LAP (or DDP) and send it to the gateway (in the hopes of final delivery to some Ethernet host - specifically a Xerox Laser Printer). I'm now planning on using a Dandelion to get going, but a cheap alternative would be appreciated. -Mark