Sym to MAC

[barmar@Think.COM (Barry Margolin)]

    Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 14:39:52 edt
    From: rick@maxai.den.mmc.com (Rick Duffy)

    This may be more of a MAC question than a Symbolic's, but ...

    I am trying to copy files to and fro a MAC.  But there doesn't
    seem to be a System Type for MAC in the namespace.  I've tried
    a few, and had the most success using just a dummy (random) type.

I believe the system type is MACINTOSH.

    I am using NCSA Telnet 2.3 on the MAC, and am using services

    Service: CONFIGURATION TCP CONFIGURATION

CONFIGURATION is a service that only Lispms normally implement, unless
you've implemented a Unix server for it.  It's the service used by the
"Show Machine Configuration" command.

    Service: FILE UDP TFTP

Earlier versions of NCSA Telnet provided TFTP.  I don't think the
current version does.

    Service: FILE TCP TCP-FTP
    Service: LISPM-FINGER UDP LISPM-FINGER

This is another Lispm-only service.

    Service: LOGIN TCP TELNET

I don't think the Macintosh supports this.

    Service: SEND TCP SMTP

Most Unix mail systems don't support SEND.  The Macintosh almost
certainly doesn't.

    Service: SHOW-USERS TCP ASCII-NAME
    Service: STORE-AND-FORWARD-MAIL TCP SMTP

Your Macintosh is probably not running a store-and-forward mailer.

    (which is a copy of the services that I use for a Unix machine
     and seem to work fine there - not that I totally understand
     all this stuff.)

    I can copy files to the MAC ok.  My problem is I don't know
    how to reference a specific folder on the MAC to which to
    copy the files.  They currently go into whatever directory
    I have defined on the MAC as my "Transfer Directory".  But
    with what I've seem to be able to do with my UNIX copies,
    I was wondering if there is some kind of pathname convention
    that would work when copying to the MAC, or if I
    need to create a new system type.

The syntax for pathnames on a Macintosh is disk:folder:folder:...:file.
This is the native syntax used by Macintosh software, but most users
don't know it because they only use graphical interfaces.

                                                barmar