Re: Apple and linux question

[kmitchel@my-dejanews.com]

In article <371d3625.0@news.cgocable.net>,
  "Terence J. Boldt" <apple2@cgocable.net> wrote:
> Byron Desnoyers Winmill wrote in message <7f8q3o$jts@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca>...
> >Mike Pfaiffer (pfaiffer@mbnet.mb.ca) wrote:
> >
> >: This is kind of an interesting question... I want to bring some
> >: software from the net over to my GS. My sole connection to the net is
> >: through a cable-modem on a 486 running RedHat linux 5.1. I have no spare
> >: serial ports at the moment on the 486 so I can't connect the machines
> >: via a null modem cable. Here was what I was thinking...
>
> I also have Linux with a cable modem, a Mac and a IIgs (among many other
> machines).  In your case, you just copy the files to a regular PC 1.44MB
> floppy, put it into a Mac with PC-Exchange (or a Mac running 7.5 or later)
> and copy the files to an 800K ProDOS floppy.  Done.  MacOS 7.5 and greater
> read PC 720K and 1.44MB disks as well as ProDOS 800K disks.  Of course the
> IIgs can also read 800K Mac disks without any trouble.  Plenty of options.
>
> I saw some discussion of Netatalk.  There is a patch that supports the IIgs,
> but I have not tried it yet.  Also, you would either need a
> Localtalk->Ethernet bridge (available for $$$ anywhere iMac's are sold) or
> there is a utility for 68030 Mac's to act as a bridge for you.  Sorry, I do
> not recall the name of it.
>

The patch can be found at http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/patches/other/

I haven't tried it yet, but I'll give it a shot in the next day or two..

Thanks to Steven Hirsch...

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Kirk Mitchell
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