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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
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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

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