Re: Accessing Appleshare volumes under ProDOS 8...

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <1994Mar23.003949.16305@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
Chris Deschu <cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:
>Hi,
>	I have a //gs hooked up to a mac which I am using as a fileserver.
>It works great under gs/os, and the mounted volumes are still there if
>I run a P8 app from gs/os. My question, is how would one mount appleshare
>volumes when running just p8? It must be possible, because //e's can be
>on networks. My //gs always boots into p8, then into an applesoft basic
>program which will either quit to p8, or run gs/os. I use this when
>running things like proterm, so there is less processor overhead. I
>would like to be able to download/upload to/from the appleshare volumes,
>and this is only possible currently if I run proterm from gs/os. What
>I would like is a way to automatically (or manually) mount appleshare
>volumes from p8. I know p8 will automatically execute a file called
>'ATINIT' in the root directory of your boot partition, if it exists.
>Is this how the above is accomplished, and if so, where does one get
>this ATINIT file? I'm sure someone with a //e and a workstation card]
>must be able to answer this question. Thanks!
>
>BTW, will a workstation card work in a //gs?

You have to boot GS/OS before you can use Appleshare. The reason is that part
of the support for Appletalk is in the system software, unlike with the
workstation card which has all code necessary in firmware. I found this out 
when I tried to use my workstation card's file server logon software on a IIgs
after booting ProDOS 8. The ATINIT file is located in */SYSTEM/SYSTEM.SETUP
when you install Appleshare on a IIgs.
There's no point to putting a workstation card in a IIgs because the same thing
is already built in.
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