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From: rick@msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Netatalk or CAP on FreeBSD
Date: 7 Aug 1996 21:06:30 GMT
Organization: Cornell Materials Science Center
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In article <girgen-0108961715040001@sl30.modempool.kth.se>, girgen@partitur.se (Palle Girgensohn) writes:
|> In article <obg.838898679@nada.kth.se>, obg@nada.kth.se (Olof Backing) wrote:
|> >In <girgen-3107960049470001@sl10.modempool.kth.se> girgen@partitur.se
|> (Palle Girgensohn) writes:
|> 
|> >Netatalk have three major improvements over CAP as I see it:
|> >
|> >1. The support of LaserWriter 8 driver. OK, I haven't testes CAP
|> 
|> Patch 197 should fix that, but I can't confirm. Are there still problems?

It seems to work for me.

|> >3. The support of automatic generation of Finder files for saving
|> >   of status information. No need to manually create them as in
|> >   CAP.

If you're talking about having to manually create the .finderinfo and
.resource directories, that seems to be automatic now in pl197.

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