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About this archive
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This package contains quite a few tidbits:
(1) An appleshare mount scripting addition,
(2) A network lookup scripting addition,
and
(3) a sample script showing one reason to use them.
Source code for the additions is included. Note that they're
for MPW, though they should work in ThC also.
What's the script?
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Here at harvard, we have four servers dedicated to student use:
Software Server 1-4. They're all in the same zone, and the volume
name is the same (General Software). What we needed was something
so that (1) students could easily get to all the software w/o
going through the Chooser, and (2) balance the load on the servers,
so one doesn't get overloaded.
Aliases are of limited utility, since they're linked to one
specific volume. So these Additions & script were developed, which
implement a sort of dynamic volume alias.
Notes
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The MountVol.c code was originally pascal code posted to
AOL by Jim Luther (DTS).