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- From: ferrara@FANDAGO.READ.TASC.COM (Henry J. Ferrara)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: Hooking a PC into an AppleTalk Network
- Message-ID: <9209041206.AA13411@fandago.Read.TASC.COM>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 12:06:52 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- >Bill "Whassamatter?! Can't you take a joke?!" Barnes wbarnes@sura.net
- > asks...
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- >Can you run PhoneNet Talk on a PC with an Ethernet card rather than a
- >Localtalk card? We've currently got a PC which shares the same Ethernet
- >network as our Macs and we'd like it to be able to print to an AppleTalk
- >printer, so we'd want the PC to be running Ethertalk, I think.
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- Bill,
- The new version of PhonetNet Talk PC (still in beta I believe)
- supports the ODI driver specification. With this you should be able to
- support most ethernet cards. A person here is working with the Beta copy
- and has it running on the Western Digital (SMC) card. He says it is
- quite nice, but I haven't actually had the time to look at it.
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- hjferrara@TASC.COM
- Henry Ferrara
- TASC
- 55 Walkers Brook Drive
- Reading, MA 01867
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