[135] in DCNS Development
Columbia Appletalk package
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
Mon Oct 28 15:06:14 1991
From: jon@MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 15:01:45 EST
To: dcns@MIT.EDU, isacs@MIT.EDU, css@MIT.EDU, rar@MIT.EDU, macdev@MIT.EDU,
I've created a public mailing list cap-users@mit.edu for discussion of
the CAP package. It allows Unix machines to speak the Appletalk
protocols and comes with several applications of interest: unix
filesystems can appear as appleshare volumes; unix printers can appear
as mac printers in the chooser; unix clients can print on
laserwriters.
CAP is a freely available package that dates back to 1986 (85?).
Within the last year and half there has seen a resurgence of interest
in CAP as various people around the net have put in much effort to
bring it up to date with respect to ethertalk (including phase 2) and
modern unix workstations which have the ability to do ethertalk
directly (i.e. without the aid of Kboxes).
As many of you know I have been running a slightly modified version of
the appleshare unix file server that takes kerberos passwords and
attaches lockers for quite some time (the "Athena Lockers" server in
the IPT-72 zone). I am almost ready to announce a new version of that
based on the most recent CAP 6.0 code which does ethertalk phase 2
directly instead of needing a Kbox/Gator box in the middle. It should
be much faster and more useful.
-- Jon
P.S. I have populated the list initially with the macdev@mit.edu
list, since I think CAP has much relevance to mac development (both
internally and as a possible mechanism for delivering services).
It's feeding the macdev discuss meeting.
