pcmeier@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Pascal Constantin Meier) (10/30/89)
Hi. I'm new to this particular newsgroup, and I have several questions: 1) I'm starting to program using appletalk, and have made several forays into the NBP. However, all I have to go on is what's in Inside Mac. Is there another standard reference for this stuff? (I looked briefly at Inside Appletalk, but not enough to figure out if its what I need. Does it deal exclusively with the low level nature of appletalk, or is it good for high level programming?) 2) Does this group cater to programmers of appletalk, or to people who network products using appletalk? I'd appreciate a quick summary of what goes on here, so's I know whether to tackle comp.sys.mac.programmers ;-) Thanks, Pascal
toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) (10/30/89)
In article <11151@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> pcmeier@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Pascal Constantin Meier) writes: >Hi. I'm new to this particular newsgroup, and I have several questions: > >1) I'm starting to program using appletalk, and have made several forays >into the NBP. However, all I have to go on is what's in Inside Mac. Is >there another standard reference for this stuff? (I looked briefly at >Inside Appletalk, but not enough to figure out if its what I need. Does >it deal exclusively with the low level nature of appletalk, or is it >good for high level programming?) > >2) Does this group cater to programmers of appletalk, or to people who >network products using appletalk? > > > >I'd appreciate a quick summary of what goes on here, so's I know whether >to tackle comp.sys.mac.programmers ;-) > >Thanks, >Pascal 1. Inside Appletalk is The Bible for Appletalk implementations. It describes in detail the packet formats, algorithms, and timing parameters involved in writing an Appletalk implementation on any machine (how you do it is your business, as long as what goes over the wire is kosher). For high level appletalk programming, you need the reference for the implementation you've got, I.E. you're stuck with Inside Mac unless someone has a better book on the subject. 2. Comp.protocols.appletalk has been dominated by connectivity questions and compatibility or usage related questions. Comp.mac.programmers sounds like a better bet but you might want to try here anyway. I'll be foraging into appletalk Real Soon Now (ha ha I know me better than that :) and when I do I will probably be in the same boat. But feel free to ask, I know some people here who are getting in deep as we speak (one guy has been trying to get KA9Q's MacNET to talk to our FastPath and he & I have been digging into our net trying to figure out why it grinds to a halt every so often, or the FastPath blows chunks or worse. So far we have found out a lot of interesting things now that we have a version of PEEK that works. In any case, I may know the answer to a question, try me.) Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu