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#Heterogenous Networking!

    25-Nov-94 17:03:58
Fm: Mark Sterling 74335,1677
To: Philip Tilson 100041,2632
TCP/IP software might be the answer. I'm pretty sure that shareware versions are available for all three platforms. I'm not sure what "network port" your Mac has but if it is an ethernet type then it could be done. The one remaining issue would be the "funny" Mac file format. You might need an additional piece of software to translate when moving files to and from the Mac. I use such a setup at work to connect Amigas, PCs and a Unix machine for file transfer and logon sessions. The two Amigas also run a peer-to-peer network software package (Envoy). At home I have 2 Amigas networked with Enlan-DFS 2.0 which is a very nice peer-to-peer system based on Decnet protocol. The FTP facility would handle file transfer although NFS would work even better. With FTP you specify what file to "get" and where to "put" it. Works OK for individual files. With NFS a drive or directory on another machine would appear to be a just like a local drive which is MUCH more convenient. AmiTCP for the AMiga is here somewhere. But I don't think it has NFS. AS225 from Commodore (commercial version) has NFS but I don't think it is available at this time. Goin' AP …..Mark Sterling