Re: GS/OS 6.0.1 -> MacOS 10.2

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Phil Beesley (pb14@le.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <aslnj4$j42$1@acme.gcfn.org>, Dave Althoff Jr
: <dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote:

: > Slowly but surely I am getting there with my own nasty little network. 
: > The plan is simple enough:
: > 
: > OS-X 10.2 <<=ethernet=>>LC-III MacOS 7.6<-LocalTalk->IIgs GS/OS 6.0.1
: > 
: > Getting the GS and the LC-III to talk to one another is dead easy; I had
: > that working last night, even though the LC-III still doesn't have a
: > complete copy of the OS loaded yet.
: > 
: > Getting the LC-III and the OS-X machine to talk to each other seems to be
: > more difficult, from what I have been reading, and I guess that even
: > though I plan to install the Appletalk Bridge on the LC-III, I probably
: > can't use the OS-X machine as a file server for the IIgs.  

: You'll be able to store forkless files from the IIgs on the OS X server
: (eg GIF, JPEG, ASCII, GShk) so it does have some use. Grab a copy of
: SharePoints which will allow you to enable AppleTalk as a protocol for
: OS X file sharing.

Well, it turns out there's something wrong with the Ethernet connection in
the LC-III.  But using a borrowed Powerbook for the bridge machine I
actually got it to work.  It's kind of cool!

Trouble is, I can't (not even using SharePoints, apparently) write files
to the OS-X box using the IIgs.  I get a "System Error $0053 Parameter Out
Of Range" when I try.  Reading files is a little better, except that the
filetype is inconveniently set to $00 when I really want type TXT.  At
least I can fix that.
  
: > But that isn't a big deal.  If I can get OS-X to run as a client to the
: > LC-III, then I can share files both ways.  Great.
: > 
: > What I really want to do goes a bit beyond file sharing.
: > 
: > What I want to do is to send a signal from the IIgs that will trigger some
: > kind of event on the OS-X machine.  Logging in to the CLI would be ideal,
: > but that isn't strictly necessary...merely triggering an AppleScript would
: > be more than enough for my purposes.  The idea is to use a IIgs as a
: > remote control for multimedia apps on the OS-X box.

: Use SharePoints to set up a drop box on the OS X Mac into which you can
: drop you commands in an ASCII file. You could then parse the commands
: in the text file using either AppleScript or a Unix shell script or
: whatever.

That's a cool idea, it just might work!  Only thing is, the command pass
directory is going to have to be on the bridge Mac so that the IIgs can
write to it.  Seems like a rather clumsy approach, but it ought to work,
and it doesn't require that I learn how to speak AppleTalk to make it work...!

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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