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winborne@physics.unc.edu (George Winborne) writes:
> I am confused by the sea of CAP versions and CAP patches.

       *
The CAP family tree ...

                          ru-cap -> ru-cap2
                        /      \     /
                      /          \ /
 ... 3.0 -> 4.0 -> 5.0 --------> 6.0 --------------> 6.1 ---> ...
                    | \         / |    ptchs 1-15
                    |  Berkeley   |   +new features
                    |             |
                     -- patches --

CAP 6.0 started life as the 5.0 distribution, over the summer break it
had all of the 5.0 patches I could find stuffed in, followed by all the new
features from the Rutgers distribution and the (local) Berkeley distribution,
UAB (UNIX AppleTalk Bridge) & finally, some Melbourne additions. Since being
released in March, there have been a number of patches fixing assorted bugs,
there are a bunch more to come late May/early June that introduce some new
features, Phase 2 support on SUNs and (?) ULTRIX 4.0 being the one perhaps
of most interest.

After a little time to make sure it's stable, a 6.1 tar file with all the
mods included will be available (so if you apply all the patches to 6.0,
you won't need to do another installation!!) [NB: at present, it is likely
that the cap60/patches directory will be discarded in 6.1 as excess baggage]

After that (this time more than 6 months I HOPE), 6.2 with the same easy
upgrade path. There are lots of things that need to be done to CAP (like,
shudder, lint) and heaps of people with specific areas of interest to keep
it up to date (EG: System 7.0, LaserWriter ProcSets, AUFS N.0 ...). I'm
happy to coordinate updates for CAP 6, we use it to support a large ugrad
teaching load and at various places on campus, so the time can be justified
(actually, I'm just using the rest of the Internet to maintain CAP for us :-)

I hope this helps ...

 - David.

* Potted answer for FAQ

  CAP stands for the Columbia AppleTalk Package, it was written by Charlie
  Kim and Bill Schilit, with contributions from hordes of other people and
  institutions. CAP provides a set of libraries to implement the AppleTalk
  protocol stack on UNIX hosts. There are also Application programs to act
  as an AppleShare Server (aufs) and LaserWriter Spooler (lwsrv). CAP will
  run on most UNIX boxes that run BSD'ish network code using IPTalk (Apple
  Talk Packets inside IP/UDP packets) for which you need an external gate-
  way for IPTalk<->EtherTalk<->LocalTalk translation.  On SUN workstations
  and ULTRIX hosts,  you can also produce Phase 1 EtherTalk packets  (soon
  also Phase 2).  CAP comes with a bunch of useful utilities.  You can get
  CAP 6.0 via anonymous (binary) FTP from the following sites

	rutgers.EDU	src/cap60.tar.Z
			src/cap60.patches

	munnari.OZ.AU	mac/cap60.tar.Z
			mac/cap.patches

	lth.SE		Mac/Unix/Cap/cap60.tar.Z

	uunet.UU.NET	networking/cap/cap60.tar.Z

	mcsun.EU.NET	network/appletalk/cap60.tar.Z

  If you don't have FTP access, or have new code to add to CAP, send email
  to cap@munnari.OZ.AU, the best place to ask CAP-related questions is the
  newsgroup comp.protocols.appletalk.