majumdar@garnet.cs.yale.edu (aloke majumdar) (04/25/91)
We've had CAP6.0 running native ethertalk on a SPARC 1 (SunOS 4.1) for several weeks now and I'm quite happy with it in general. We've done some stress testing on it and hope to have some benchmark figures compiled in a couple of weeks. I'll post those to the net when they're available. Right now I have some queries about future CAP directions and some notes on problems with the current release. 1) Is work being done on getting CAP to work with ethertalk phase 2? I'd be willing to contribute my time to getting it done, but I don't want to start from scratch if someone already has a lot of code that they haven't got around to finishing. This is going to be increasingly important in the coming months as more and more people make the switch. 2) I've had complaints from a user about PC Appleshare not being able to mount AUFS. So far I haven't got any followup details, but I wondered if other people have had the same problem. 3) Have the patches to "lwsrv" to capture the new style laserprep (with split AppleDicts) been folded into the release? Incidentally, we got "lwsrv" to work with an LPS40 hosted by a VAX/VMS machine, but I had to use a modified AppleDict in order to do so. I haven't yet had to modify the latest version(s) of the laserprep, but will inevitably have to do so in the next couple of months. 4) I'd heard that Apple had bought the rights to CAP (whatever that means). Is there any truth to this? If so, how is it going to effect those of us who have started on relying on this superb piece of net-supported software? Will future versions have to be purchased from Apple? Are they going to continue supporting software that runs on other vendor's machines? etc. Aloke Majumdar Yale Computer Center
coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) (04/28/91)
majumdar@garnet.cs.yale.edu (aloke majumdar) writes: > Right now I have some queries about future CAP directions and some notes >on problems with the current release. >[Queries deleted] I'd also like EtherTalk phase 2 compatibility (I could move the server off my A/UX machine and onto someone else's SparcStation :-)); even more important for me is the option to save AUFS files as AppleSingle or AppleDouble documents rather than the massive hackage CAP uses now. We've got lots of A/UX boxes around, and it's a massive pain having big directories full of AppleSingle/Double files and big directories full of CAP files, none of which can speak to each other without translation. I'd prefer to use the same disk space for both, and I'd prefer it to be in AppleSingle/Double format since native file reading is much faster under A/UX than CAP AUFS access. --John -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John L. Coolidge Internet:coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP:uiucdcs!coolidge Of course I don't speak for the U of I (or anyone else except myself) Copyright 1991 John L. Coolidge. Copying allowed if (and only if) attributed. You may redistribute this article if and only if your recipients may as well.
djh@cs.mu.oz.au (David Hornsby) (05/01/91)
majumdar@garnet.cs.yale.edu (aloke majumdar) writes: > 1) Is work being done on getting CAP to work with ethertalk phase 2? Yes. > 2) I've had complaints from a user about PC Appleshare ... The PC AppleShare support needs to be configured in at Configure time. Uncomment the "SHORT_NAMES" definition in the features file. This will probably merge permanently into the code in a future CAP release. > 3) Have the patches to "lwsrv" ... been folded into the release? There are a bunch of contributed feature patches waiting to be folded in, this is one of them (BTW this week is the deadline for any new code submissions). The current plan is to release a number of patches with the new stuff all at once. If there are no problems then CAP 6.1 will appear a short time later. The original time frame for this was mid May, but Phase 2 testing will probably delay things by a couple of weeks or so (but the wait should be worth it). - David.