king@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu (Jim King) (02/21/90)
We have recently installed a Gator box linking our PhoneNet Appletalk network to a system of Vaxes running Ultrix. A Unix directory has been set up to look like an Appleshare volume to the Mac side of the gateway, and it is possible to move files to and from this directory. The problem is that only individual files can be copied to the Appleshare volume; if one tries to copy folders with their contents, it does not copy. I assume this is not how this is supposed to work. It would be very helpful to learn what is going wrong and how to fix it. Any suggestions would be welcome. There was an earlier, quite probably related, problem with printing using CAP through the Gator box. Somehow 8-bit characters were coming through that were not interpreted properly, so that a Mac character from the upper ASCII range (like a bullet or a "not equals" would be stripped of a bit and printed as something else. Our system administrator says that something similar is happening with the folders, there are 8-bit characters that cannot be handled on the Unix end. (The printing was solved by turning on some 8-bit switch in the CAP software (or I think this was how)). Thanks for any help you can send. I will summarize replies and post them to the net. Jim King king@math.washington.edu James King Dept of Math GN-50 Univ of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 543-1915