bill malcolm wrote: > The Term is call Responder --- which the IIe/IIGS lacks -- Huh? The term "responder" has never been used to describe an AppleShare file server, as far as I am aware. (Certainly not "call responder".) It can be used as a general term for a piece of software which waits for incoming network connections and responds to them, and this is a reasonable description of how an AppleShare server operates. > Reason is 65816 has got too much to do the hand that also. Not at all. It is just that no-one ever wrote an AppleShare server for the IIgs, as it would be a lot of work for little gain, when you can get an old Mac for a song and use its file sharing facilities (or run an old copy of AppleShare on it). As far as performance is concerned: the IIgs has similar performance to a Mac Plus (as long as you aren't doing heavy processing of numbers larger than 16 bits), and a Mac Plus is perfectly capable of running AppleShare 2.0 (which takes over the whole machine). AppleShare 3.0 might not run, due to lack of memory, but System 7's file sharing would be available on a Mac Plus. There are other technical issues which would make it difficult for an Apple II to act as an AppleShare server, e.g. it would probably be necessary to use HFS as the server volume in order to comply with the AppleShare virtual file system. ProDOS doesn't have enough flexibility, particularly in its file name restrictions. (This could be resolved by using a private data file which mains the extra information to map between the AppleShare virtual file system and the real ProDOS file system.) -- David Empson dempson@actrix.gen.nz