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From: girgen@partitur.se (Palle Girgensohn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Netatalk or CAP on FreeBSD
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 17:15:04 +0200
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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:
>
[snip]
>
>>Netatalk requires either a hardware router or UAR (a software router from
>>the CAP package) running in the network. UAR can, as stated here, either
>>run on another machine, or on the same machine as netatalk BUT on a
>>different network interface.
>
>Not true. Anyway, as you miss to mention, this goes for the Linux port
>of Netatalk. I use it on a Ultrix host and have no problem without the
>aforementioned hw router or UAR.
>

Subject header: Netatalk or CAP on *FreeBSD*. 

It's related to the routing code of FreeBSD, and is not a problem on any
other unix system AFAIK.

>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?

>2. The support of correct icon viewing. You can have both a system
>   global icon definition file as well as a per-user-dito.

Can do it in CAP as well. 

CAP can also convert file contents between MacRoman & ISO-Latin for text
files or files with certain extensions. I, for instance, create my html
docs in BBEdit and save them to the CAP server, and voila, they're in
ISO-Latin. That's a key feature 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.

This is really stupid in CAP, I agree.

___________________________________________________________________________
Palle Girgensohn                                     Electrical Engineering
girgen@e.kth.se                               Royal Institute of Technology
+46 708 99 97 29                                          Stockholm, Sweden