On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Todd Ferris wrote:

> 1)  Has anyone been successful in getting Netatalk to work?  When I read
> the description "netatalk is an implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol
> Suite for BSD-derived Unix systems", I thought that it might work with
> NetBSD...  Has anyone tried it out?

 Unless they've reed something new lately, it only supports linookz, 
SunOS and Ultrix.

> If Netatalk doesn't work, what about CAP?  I saw one message on the list
> regarding CAP.  Does it compile "out of the box"?  Is there anyway to
> attach a localtalk printer?  or do you need to attach via serial cable?

 CAP 'works', but I've never gotten it to work fast enough to be usable. 
I run netatalk on my SunOS box, it's much much faster, since it doesn't 
have to use bpf (faster machine too). It's fairly easy to compile (if you 
read the docs). Serial only for printer, or get a Mac running MacOS, 
Ethernet and run the Localtalk Bridge.

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