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From: vita@daredevil.crd.ge.com (Mark F. Vita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Do you want to transfer files over AppleTalk?
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Date: 28 Sep 89 19:29:23 GMT
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In article <10169@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>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
>...

Hmm, is this an incarnation of the fabled "Oscar" utility I've heard
about?  Supposedly Oscar was developed by some Apple engineer in his
spare time, is quite nifty, and is used heavily inside of Apple.  One
rumor had it that Oscar had received Gassee's blessing and would be
part of the System 7 release.

Seems likely that such a beast would put a substantial dent in sales
of things like TOPS...

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Mark Vita                              vita@crd.ge.com
General Electric CRD               	..!uunet!crd.ge.com!vita
Schenectady, NY