One of the most exciting new capabilities to come along in quite some time is Apple Computer's AppleTalk Remote Access, or ARA. It allows you to create a connection between a remote computer and a local area network. For example, you could use ARA to dial into your office network while you're traveling with a PowerBook.
We like ARA at UserLand, in fact we use it to bridge computers here all the time. It works. Then we heard that Apple was offering an API for ARA -- we couldn't resist creating a small "applet" to bridge ARA to Frontier script writing. As a result, your scripts can now operate over a phone line! This is going to be very interesting.
Using ARA Server and Frontier, you can automatically initiate an ARA connection, manage it, and terminate the connection. Once the connection is established, the remote machine becomes an AppleShare server to the local machine.
We hope you like it!
How to Install
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1. With Frontier running, double-click on ARA.Frontier to install the ARA verbs.
2. In Frontier's Quick Script window, type ARA.launch to launch the ARA application.
2. Launch DocServer, and use the Load Text File command in the File menu to load the verb docs for the ARA Server.
