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- About this archive
- ------------------
- 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?
- ------------------
- 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
- -----
- The MountVol.c code was originally pascal code posted to
- AOL by Jim Luther (DTS).
-
-