Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!mithomas From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Do you want to transfer files over AppleTalk? Message-ID: <10169@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Date: 28 Sep 89 14:04:40 GMT Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 33 How many times have you had to pop a disk into one Mac just to copy a file to a Macintosh sitting three feet away? Now, if you have your machines networked together, you can transfer files over AppleTalk (no disks needed). How do you do this? Use "Public Folder." Claris has been kind enough to release this handy utility AT NO COST. Because this is free software provided only as a service to the Macintosh community, Claris will not formally be distributing this software, nor will they be able to provide technical support. Public Folder can be distributed freely. Pass copies around to all of your friends. I have already sent this software to info-mac and comp.binaries.mac, but if you would like for me to send you a copy, just let me know (maybe someone would be willing to post it to other electronic services as well). Hopefully it will show up soon. [An aside: Nothing that I have ever posted to comp.binaries.mac has ever shown up or been acknowledged.] This utility is implemented as a Chooser RDEV, with a server process running in the background on all machines running Public Folder. This means that you can transfer a file from another machine while that other machine is in use. Very nice. You can also transfer an entire folder (or folders) in one sweep, also nice. (I have used this utility to transfer the contents of a 20MB disk to a 40MB disk -- and the machines were in different buildings. Since both were internal hard drives, this sure saved a lot of disk popping.) -Michael -- Michael Niehaus UUCP:!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas Apple Student Rep ARPA: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu Ball State University AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)