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ARA+ 1.0.3
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Shareware at $20 (100 French francs) by:
Benjamin HERRENSCHMIDT
3, rue d'Oslo
67000 STRASBOURG
FRANCE
e-mail: benh@tatooine.fdn.org
calvacom: BH40
AppleLink: BENJAMIN.H
This software is shareware. You can copy it and give to everyone
on this planet and elsewhere provided you include this document.
If you like ARA+ and find it useful, please support the shareware
system and send $20 to the author. You will receive a registration
code which will allow you to personalise your copy of ARA+ and
disable the annoying alert when you quit.
What is ARA+ ?
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ARA+ is a little application (it uses 120K of RAM) which displays a
status bar. This status bar contains the state of AppleTalk Remote
Access along with some way to control this state: if your are
connected to a remote host, you have a "Disconnect" button on the
right of the status bar, else you have a popUp of connection files.
This popUp if configurable, see later.
The status bar has two position "small" and "large". "large" is the
default one and can be changed with the little switch on the left of
the window.
When in "small" position, if you are connected you have the connection
time and the little "D" button, if you are disconnected you have only
the popUp. In "large" you always have the popUp or the button with
full title AND the status message.
Note: A lack of documentation from Apple about AppleTalk Remote
Access API prevented me to display ARA informations on the server
machine. If you are a server machine, ARA+ will display "Not connected"
or "ARA Not loaded" event if someone is connecting to your machine.
ARA+ adds many features to ARA: It knows some AppleEvents: you can
establish a connection and disconnect with AppleEvents. A little aete
resource allows you to use these AppleEvents with AppleScript. A future
version will implement more AppleEvents.
There is a "Smart disconnect" feature (enable by default) which will try
to unmount all the remote AppleShare volumes before disconnecting.
ARA+ can add volume mounting informations to connection files in order
to automount these volumes when a connection is established.
Configuring the PopUp
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The popUp menu always contains three items:
• "Open…" is the same as "Open…" in the file menu. It displays a standard
file dialog for opening an ARA connection file. Once opened, the connection
file will be used to establish a connection.
• "Manual connection…" will allow you to manually type the phone number,
the name and the password to establish a connection. You can save these
informations in a new connection file:
WARNING: The current version of ARA+ uses ARA 1.0 connection informations.
They will work on a ARA 2.0 client but you will not be able to connect to
an ARA 2.0 server. The problem is the same if you use connection files build
with ARA 1.0. You should convert them with "Remote Access Personal"
application before using them to connect to an ARA 2.0 server.
• "Configure menu…" will display a standard file with a second list at the
bottom and two new buttons : "Add" and "Remove". This standard file allows
you to add connection files to the popUp menu. The files added by this ways
will not be moved on your hard disk. An alias of them will be created in the
folder "ARA+ documents" in your "Preferences" folder.
You can configure the popUp manually by adding connection files or aliases
to connection filesin this "ARA+ documents" folder. This folder is created
the first time you launch ARA+.
Items in bold in the popUp are "Connection sets". These files are extended
connection files containing volume mounting informations. You can extend
a connection file (and make it a connection set) using the "Connection sets..."
item of the file menu.
Smart disconnect
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You can enable or disable smart disconnect from the preferences dialog. It
is available thru the "Preferences" item of the file menu.
When enabled, if you disconnect an ARA connection with the "Disconnect"
button of ARA+, the list of AppleShare volumes will be scanned by ARA+
before disconnecting. If a mounted volume is on a server which is on the
remote side of the connection, it will be unmounted.
If ARA+ cannot unmount all the remote volumes (when a file is open on
one of them), it will display an alert allowing you to force disconnect
(which can be dangerous and crash applications using remote files) or
to cancel disconnection.
Connection sets
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ARA+ allows you to extend standard connection files by adding volume
mounting informations to them.
To do so, choose "Connection sets…" from the file menu and select a
connection file to edit.
In the following dialog box, you have two lists. The list on the left displays
the actually mounted volumes. You can filter this list and display only
volumes on the remote side of the connection by checking the "Only remote
volumes" box. The list on the right is the list of volumes to mount when an
ARA connection is established with this file.
You can also extract mounting informations from aliases with the "Extract
from alias" button.
You can change the creator code of the connection file. It is useful to set the
creator code to ARA+ because if you do so, ARA+ will establish the connection
when you double click on the connection file from the finder.
NOTE: Volume mounting only works when the connection is established by
ARA+.
WARNING: Opening a connection set with "Remote Access" or "Remote Access
Personal" application and saving it will result in a loss of volume mounting
informations.
Version history
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• Version 1.0.1
Some beta versions were released to french networks. This was numbered 1.0.1
instead of 1.0 to avoid confusion with these betas. This is the first final
released version.
• Version 1.0.2
Corrects a bug preventing status to be displayed and disconnect button
to work when ARA is in server mode.
Corrects a bug causing a crash on non-color quickdraw machines.
Corrects many bugs with the popUp setup dialog.
Adds some new error message (instead of numbers) for CCL errors (No Dialtone,
No Carrier, Busy, ...) and for AppleShare errors.
Corrects a bug preventing disconnection when smart disconnect returned an error.
• Version 1.0.3
Ooooops ! I left a little bug when compiling 1.0.2 which prevented volume
mounting from working correctly !
BenH.