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Article #4007Re: AppleTalk to Ethernet Bridges
From: Andrew E Wade
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1989 20:38
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1989 20:38
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We've just purchased a Cayman GatorBox and are happy with it. It's a bit more expensive than Kinetics Fastpath, but has more functionality; in particular, it translates AFP to NFS protocol (network file system). If you use NFS on your Unix network, it's the best choice. No need for tops or anything else. Cayman sends you (if you don't already have it) the appleshare stuff. Gatorbox allows login from mac to any unix system via telnet; mounting any unix filesystems as volumes (disks) on any mac, so you see unix files as icons, drag them around open them directly, even automatically translates CR to/from LF; also supports sharing of printers, and other non-supplied email stuff, though Cayman plans
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!drew From: drew@cup.portal.com (Andrew E Wade) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: AppleTalk to Ethernet Bridges Message-ID: <21840@cup.portal.com> Date: 3 Sep 89 20:38:39 GMT References: <1550@manta.cme.nbs.gov> Distribution: usa Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 11