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AppleTalk Manager

The AppleTalk Manager supports communication with networked computers via the AppleTalk protocol. The AppleTalk Manager is not supported in Carbon. Note that you can use Open Transport instead of the AppleTalk Manager to implement networking features based on AppleTalk protocols.


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Inside Macintosh: Networking With Open Transport
If you're looking for information on the AppleTalk Manager, you may want to refer to this document, which is revised for the 1.3 release of Open Transport. Open Tansport is a communications architecture for implementing network protocols and other communication systems on computers running the Mac OS. Open Transport provides a set of programming interfaces that supports, among other things, both the AppleTalk and TCP/IP protocols, at the transport level.

AppleTalk Filing Protocol (AFP) [PDF]
This document updates Chapter 9, AppleTalk Filing Protocol, in Inside Macintosh: Networking. It describes the .AFPTranslator driver, which accepts AppleTalk Filing Protocol (AFP) commands and channels them to the appropriate transport (the data stream interface for TCP/IP and the .XPP driver for AppleTalk).

AppleTalk Filing Protocol Version 2.1 and 2.2 [PDF]
This document describes commands and data structures that have been added to the AppleTalk Filing Protocol since the publication of Inside AppleTalk, second edition. Specifically, this document describes new commands introduced with AFP 2.1, as well as new bit definitions and attributes for several AFP commands. It also describes changes to commands which were introduced with AFP 2.2.

Inside Macintosh: Networking
Note: In most cases, you can use Open Transport, described above, to supply the network services described in Inside Macintosh: Networking. In addition, AppleTalk Filing Protocol (described above) supersedes the information found in Chapter 9 of Networking.

Inside Macintosh: Networking describes how to write software that uses any of the AppleTalk networking protocols. Read this book if you want to write an application specifically designed to use AppleTalk, an AppleTalk network server, or a new networking protocol that is a client of any of the AppleTalk protocols.