11 Dec
2003
11 Dec
'03
4:33 a.m.
Speaking of A2 file transfers, anyone know how to get
a A2-GS
on a CAT-5 ethernet network? (And roughly how much it'd costs?)
For file transfers, Serial tends to be too flakey, and slow
for my tastes.
I presume I'd need netatalk on the "server side", not certain
what I'd need on the GS side?
I've Linux, Solaris, IRIX, and (unfortunately) Windoze handy.
No Macintoshes though.
My IIgs is on the apartment Ethernet, although more or less per kludge.
I have a Dayna EtherPrint-T box that converts LocalTalk, of which I have
a number of systems running (a Mac Plus, an old PC using an Apple ISA
card, an SE/30 and the IIgs), into EtherTalk and emits it over the main
apartment backbone. The IIgs is plugged into the LocalTalk segment and
shares files with the NetBSD server running netatalk (ironically, it's a
Mac IIci, but this should work fine with any Unix-based system with
support ... I did have to recompile the kernel to allow DDP traffic).
Note, that's netatalk, not netatalk-asun ... never used the latter.
Sneaker-netting floppies is also potentially viable, but you really do
need a Mac for that. An old one will do, and would probably be even
suitable *and* appropriate. My workstation IIci does regular duty as an
imaging system, since it can image MS-DOS HD/DD floppies, Mac GCR 400K
floppies, Mac 800K and HD floppies, and ProDOS floppies. God bless PC
File Exchange and System 7.1.
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