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Cashed 128 MB Posts: 192 System 7 Newcomer!	on: June 26, 2022, 13:24 Quote from: Okay, the title is a bit of a misnomer because in theory this should work under solaris as well, but I haven't tested that theory yet. Broadcast for Linux and Cross Platform Networking is a project to recreate the chooser extention Broadcast from the Macintosh and to be fully compatable with that. The Broadcast extention works a lot like UNIX's write command, but it sends the message and an icon over the AppleTalk network to the receiving host. We used the ddp packet layer that was available in Linux's kernel along with Netatalk version 1.3.3 for the AppleTalk networking. Motif was used for the X interface. The packet format Broadcast was expecting was derived from a very old document we found about Broadcast. ~Project from 1997 Yay! My first post in this forum —didn't know where else to dump it. The source to bcast is available from the capture.

cballero 1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever	Reply #1 on: June 26, 2022, 14:39 Welcome to System 7 Today, Cashed!! Hmm, I'd likely need more background on Broadcast, but anything that extends System 7's powers is awesome in my (and our) book(s)! Wow, Solaris is an OS I haven't heard much from in a long while, and surprisingly still going strong with its absorption by Oracle!

Bolkonskij Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023	Reply #2 on: June 26, 2022, 15:29 Hey Cashed, great to have you on our little forum :-) As for broadcast - why would I want to use that ? Seriously asking, no offense. Not a Linux / Solaris guy here

Cashed 128 MB Posts: 192 System 7 Newcomer!	Reply #3 on: June 26, 2022, 19:31 Great! Thanks! Hey guys -glad to be here! I probably should have introduced myself at the welcome committee, I noticed afterwards -will do one day when I feel up to it. I am however a fellow legit SE 1/20 owner, scheduled to run SSW 3.3 - 7.x.x, even SSW 1.1 -if possible. Hope this forum won't be to modern for me @Bolkonskij -none taken at all -me neither. I don't know… Even the icon https://images.macintosh.garden/2022/06/26/Bcast.jpg asks the same question While cdx-surfing I stumble over a heap of different eccentric stuff. At times I stuck and a hunch to share some of the accumulated stuff pops up -I can't move on before I've dumped it. I got stuck on browser tab #47, just following my hunch -maybe someone else can use the source code.
Last Edit: June 26, 2022, 19:34 by Cashed
68040 512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !	Reply #4 on: June 27, 2022, 13:06 The biggest issue I have with Apple Talk is its requirement for HW support on the network side. Not much I can do about that so I removed the entire AT stack from my network setup and went NetBIOS & TCP/IP only.

Knezzen Administrator 512 MB Posts: 608 Village idiot	Reply #5 on: June 27, 2022, 18:34 Welcome Cashed! Quite interesting old projects. Looks like it's target was to mimic the AppleTalk extension in the Chooser for UNIX machines. Need to give it a go on IRIX or something

Cashed 128 MB Posts: 192 System 7 Newcomer!	Reply #6 on: June 28, 2022, 05:51 TY! Just found site 2 and site 1 from 1996 -I think Linux is covered now -there's enough old projects for a lifetime.

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