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- From: walsteyn@fys.ruu.nl (Fred Walsteijn)
- Subject: Re: NFS for Macintosh
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.112423.25143@fys.ruu.nl>
- Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
- References: <1993Jan23.032758.7492@netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 11:24:23 GMT
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- In <1993Jan23.032758.7492@netcom.com> proact@netcom.com (Proactive Software) writes:
-
- >Our company has an application that runs on multiple platforms and we
- >would like to be able to share the source code. Currently we use NFS
- >so our Sun machines and MS-DOS machines can access the same source code.
- >How can we hook up our Macintoshes into this environment? Is there a NFS
- >product for the Macintosh that uses the MacTCP drivers and etherTalk?
-
- There are a few: Wollongong Pathway NFS; Intercon Mac NFS (?); ....
- But convince yourself that they do what you want.
- I need a product that does *automatic* translations of Unix EOLs
- (end-of-lines) to Mac EOLs. I need that capability ``in both directions'':
- i.e. for files copied to the Mac from a Unix disk, and vice versa.
- More than a year ago the Mac NFS packages I've heard of could not do that.
- Maybe the latest releases can...
-
- >Is the CAP software my solution? Can CAP give my macs access to my
- >directories on the Unix machine?
-
- I think you will like it: it does EOL translations of text files
- in both directions.
- It also allows you to specify mappings of Unix filename extensions to
- Mac file types/creators. You can also specify a default file type/creator
- (I've set that to "MPW Shell text files").
- The only problem I have has to do with file dates/times after a
- copy from Mac to Unix. You can configure CAP such that the Unix-resident
- file (when viewed from the Mac with Get Info for example)
- still has the same date/time as its original on the Mac, but when
- viewed from Unix (ls -l) the file's modification date/time is that of the
- copy action. That can give some problems with make files, but not
- if you do all editing on the Mac (as I tend to do).
-
- Good luck,
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- Fred Walsteijn | Internet: walsteyn@fys.ruu.nl
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