korfhage@polyof.poly.edu (A1 willard korfhage (cs) ) (03/16/90)
Uab is a program that acts like a bridge (e.g. Fastpath or Gatorbox). Any mac that can put Ethertalk on an ethernet can talk to Columbia's CAP package without needing a Fastpath or Gatorbox on the network to handle protocol encapsulation. If your macs are on Localtalk, and you have a mac connected to both the ethernet and the localtalk network, then it appears that a software bridge like Liason can be used to get to CAP, rather than having to spend a couple thousand dollars for a dedicated bridge (see note later in message regarding this setup). My mac is on the school ethernet, and I use uab and CAP to use our suns as file servers and to print to a QMS printer attached to a sun. My mac is also connected to a localtalk network, and I recently tried to install Liason to bridge the two networks, and it seemed to do so, except that Liason always hung my machine after a couple minutes. Does anyone else out there have Liason 2.05 running on a IIci? Even with a clean system, no inits except Liason, and my mac disconnected from the networks, Liason still hung my machine. The folks at Infoshpere were baffled, and are sending me version 2.06, so until I get that I can't completely say how well uab and liason will get along. uab and cap are available for anonymous ftp from puscs.poly.edu (128.238.5.8), in pub/Mac/Uab and pub/Mac/Cap. I don't know if CAP had to be modified to work with uab or not. I'm just a user, and it is our systems people who got uab debugged. (Translation: don't ask me any tecnical questions about uab) Willard Korfhage korfhage@pucatt.poly.edu
dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) (03/16/90)
In article <1990Mar15.183901.4236@polyof.poly.edu> korfhage@polyof.poly.edu (A1 willard korfhage (cs) ) writes: > uab and cap are available for anonymous ftp from puscs.poly.edu > (128.238.5.8), in pub/Mac/Uab and pub/Mac/Cap. I don't know if CAP had to > be modified to work with uab or not. Not really. To use CAP in a uab-based system, you must rebuild the CAP library, replacing one KIP-specific link-level source file with the uab-specific equivalent which is provided in the uab distribution. Then, relink the CAP applications, start up uab, and away you go! -- Dave Platt VOICE: (415) 493-8805 UUCP: ...!{ames,apple,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
bdest@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Benoit Desjardins) (03/28/90)
does anybody know if there is a PD software that enables us to read Amiga floppies with the FDHD drive (or something like an Apple File Exchange config file for Amigas)? Is it a possible task, or is there some hardware limitation that makes it impossible? Please reply directly to benoit@speedy.cs.pitt.edu Benoit Desjardins