Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!nsc!voder!apple!dan From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: appleshare & hypercard,hypercard move files between volumes Keywords: hypercard, appleshare, files Message-ID: <13903@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 14 Jul 88 04:11:20 GMT References: <3074@sdsu.UUCP> Reply-To: dan@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen) Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 29 In article <3074@sdsu.UUCP> whitney@sdsu.UUCP (Roger Whitney) writes: > > Can anyone help with the following. XCMDS to perform the task would be >ideal. Pointers to the proper function calls would be great. Pointers to the >proper documentation would be nice. > >a) I'm looking for a way of logging on and off an appleshare network while in >hypercard. Basicly I would like a button that a user can used to log on or off >appleshare. > >b) I would like to move files between volumes while in hypercard. In >particular I would like to move files from an apple share file server to a >local hard drive or local floppy, or from the local hard drive to the floppy. > >c) I would really like the machine, when booting, to look for the hard drive >first, when the floppy. I suspect that this is some thing that can not be >changed. These particular functions are not available in any XCMDs that I am aware of, but could easily be written. Just get yourself a copy of MPW and MPW Pascal, Gary Bond's XCMD book ("XCMDs for HyperCard"), and a copy of Inside Macintosh. Automatically logging on to AppleShare may require a bit of hacking in order to do--the AppleTalk people would probably rather have you use the Chooser, but MPW 3.0 will include an MPW Tool that will allow mounting an AppleShare volume, so it is certainly doable. (You may need "Inside AppleTalk", for example.) Dan Allen Apple Computer