Appletalk client SW for unix (reverse CAP?)

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2 total messages Started by Curtis Sanford Fri, 08 Jan 1993 16:44

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Author: Curtis Sanford
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 16:44

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My understanding (from the FAQ) is that CAP provides Appleshare server
functionality on a UNIX station.  I would like to turn a UNIX station into
an Appleshare CLIENT, so that it could use CHOOSER functions to mount
volumes on Sys.7 workstations with File Sharing, in order to back them up
to the 8mm 5GB tapedrive available on the UNIX workstation.  Is there
anything around to do this kind of function?

Curtis Sanford
Ascend Communications

Re: Appletalk client SW for unix (reverse CAP?)

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Author: Dave Platt
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:32

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In article <5316@aria.Ascend.COM> sanford@aria.Ascend.COM (Curtis Sanford) writes:
>My understanding (from the FAQ) is that CAP provides Appleshare server
>functionality on a UNIX station.  I would like to turn a UNIX station into
>an Appleshare CLIENT, so that it could use CHOOSER functions to mount
>volumes on Sys.7 workstations with File Sharing, in order to back them up
>to the 8mm 5GB tapedrive available on the UNIX workstation.  Is there
>anything around to do this kind of function?

The CAP library does contain the routines necessary to implement the
client side of AFP.  Check out the "ash" program in the samples
directory - it can connect fo an AFP server, list directories, change
directories, and get and put files.

It's rather primitive in its current form, but you could use it as the
basis for a tool which would descend through the directory hierarchy and
read and dump files to tape.

An alternative solution would be to use the Dumper package, which allows
a Mac disk to be dumped to a Unix-disk dumpfile or (with some patches
applied) directly to a Unix tapedrive.  You can pick up the current
official release of Dumper (a.k.a. macdump) from the anonymous-FTP
fileserver at BBN.COM;  the patches needed to support direct tape
dumping were recently posted in this newsgroup.

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