Re: GS/OS 6.0.1 -> MacOS 10.2

[Phil Beesley <pb14@le.ac.uk>]

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.
 
> 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.

Phil