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Date:      Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:14:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CAP vs netatalk for Appletalk/printing support
Message-ID:  <199808101714.KAA12031@pau-amma.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <v04011701b1f0f95c4978@[128.113.24.47]>

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>Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 15:53:39 -0400
>From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>

>I notice the ports collection includes both CAP and netatalk, and
>that kernel changes have been made for netatalk to take advantage
>of.  I was wondering if most FreeBSD'ers prefer netatalk over CAP.

Not sure about FreeBSDers, but I'll mention that a fairly large company
I did some consulting sysadmin work for uses CAP for access to printers.
(The company in question was moving its Mountain View Facility to
downtown San Jose; I participated in part of that move near the
beginning of my tenure there.  They use *lots* of printers....)

Thus, it's conceivable that keeping CAP functional would make FreeBSD
more attractive to such a company than failing to keep it functional
would.  (During the time I was there, they did not make any use of
FreeBSD that I know of; I mostly did Solaris 2 & SunOS administration,
with the occasional IRIX, AIX, Digital UNIX, or HPUX system.)

One datum,
david
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