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- From: hoymand@wissago.wisc.edu (Dirk Herr-Hoyman)
- Subject: Re: CAP under NeXTstep 3.0
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.182909.24681@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>
- Keywords: Ethertalk, CAP, Next
- Sender: news@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Physical Sciences Lab, UW-Madison
- References: <1993Jan25.072734.23701@fzi.de>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 18:29:09 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.072734.23701@fzi.de> bwild@fzi.de writes:
- > We have CAP 6.0 running on our NeXTs under 2.1 and 3.0 without any problems.
- In
- > contrast to the Appleshare client software of NeXT which is part of NS3.0 the
- > CAP package exhibits a very good stability and reasonable performance. After
- > the porting of Adobe LaserWriter fonts from Mac to NeXT via Metamorphosis we
- > can even use the NeXT laser printer without any problems. The only
- prerequisite
- > is an Appletalk/Internet gateway (e.g. Kinetics FastPath or Cayman Gatorbox)
- > because the NeXT version of CAP doesn't support EtherTalk, i.e. the direct
- > integration of Macs with Ethernet cards and NeXTs.
- >
- Could you explain how you have your Next and your AppleTalk network connected?
- If Ethertalk is not supported, I am not clear as to how this is done.
-
- Also, do you know if anyone is working to bring up Ethertalk?
-
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