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- ARA+ 1.0.3
- ---------
- Shareware at $20 (100 French francs) by:
-
- Benjamin HERRENSCHMIDT
- 3, rue d'Oslo
- 67000 STRASBOURG
- FRANCE
-
- e-mail: benh@tatooine.fdn.org
- calvacom: BH40
- AppleLink: BENJAMIN.H
-
- This software is shareware. You can copy it and give to everyone
- on this planet and elsewhere provided you include this document.
- If you like ARA+ and find it useful, please support the shareware
- system and send $20 to the author. You will receive a registration
- code which will allow you to personalise your copy of ARA+ and
- disable the annoying alert when you quit.
-
-
- What is ARA+ ?
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-
- ARA+ is a little application (it uses 120K of RAM) which displays a
- status bar. This status bar contains the state of AppleTalk Remote
- Access along with some way to control this state: if your are
- connected to a remote host, you have a "Disconnect" button on the
- right of the status bar, else you have a popUp of connection files.
- This popUp if configurable, see later.
- The status bar has two position "small" and "large". "large" is the
- default one and can be changed with the little switch on the left of
- the window.
- When in "small" position, if you are connected you have the connection
- time and the little "D" button, if you are disconnected you have only
- the popUp. In "large" you always have the popUp or the button with
- full title AND the status message.
-
- Note: A lack of documentation from Apple about AppleTalk Remote
- Access API prevented me to display ARA informations on the server
- machine. If you are a server machine, ARA+ will display "Not connected"
- or "ARA Not loaded" event if someone is connecting to your machine.
-
- ARA+ adds many features to ARA: It knows some AppleEvents: you can
- establish a connection and disconnect with AppleEvents. A little aete
- resource allows you to use these AppleEvents with AppleScript. A future
- version will implement more AppleEvents.
- There is a "Smart disconnect" feature (enable by default) which will try
- to unmount all the remote AppleShare volumes before disconnecting.
- ARA+ can add volume mounting informations to connection files in order
- to automount these volumes when a connection is established.
-
- Configuring the PopUp
- -------------------
-
- The popUp menu always contains three items:
-
- • "Open…" is the same as "Open…" in the file menu. It displays a standard
- file dialog for opening an ARA connection file. Once opened, the connection
- file will be used to establish a connection.
- • "Manual connection…" will allow you to manually type the phone number,
- the name and the password to establish a connection. You can save these
- informations in a new connection file:
- WARNING: The current version of ARA+ uses ARA 1.0 connection informations.
- They will work on a ARA 2.0 client but you will not be able to connect to
- an ARA 2.0 server. The problem is the same if you use connection files build
- with ARA 1.0. You should convert them with "Remote Access Personal"
- application before using them to connect to an ARA 2.0 server.
- • "Configure menu…" will display a standard file with a second list at the
- bottom and two new buttons : "Add" and "Remove". This standard file allows
- you to add connection files to the popUp menu. The files added by this ways
- will not be moved on your hard disk. An alias of them will be created in the
- folder "ARA+ documents" in your "Preferences" folder.
-
- You can configure the popUp manually by adding connection files or aliases
- to connection filesin this "ARA+ documents" folder. This folder is created
- the first time you launch ARA+.
-
- Items in bold in the popUp are "Connection sets". These files are extended
- connection files containing volume mounting informations. You can extend
- a connection file (and make it a connection set) using the "Connection sets..."
- item of the file menu.
-
- Smart disconnect
- ---------------
-
- You can enable or disable smart disconnect from the preferences dialog. It
- is available thru the "Preferences" item of the file menu.
-
- When enabled, if you disconnect an ARA connection with the "Disconnect"
- button of ARA+, the list of AppleShare volumes will be scanned by ARA+
- before disconnecting. If a mounted volume is on a server which is on the
- remote side of the connection, it will be unmounted.
- If ARA+ cannot unmount all the remote volumes (when a file is open on
- one of them), it will display an alert allowing you to force disconnect
- (which can be dangerous and crash applications using remote files) or
- to cancel disconnection.
-
- Connection sets
- -------------
-
- ARA+ allows you to extend standard connection files by adding volume
- mounting informations to them.
- To do so, choose "Connection sets…" from the file menu and select a
- connection file to edit.
- In the following dialog box, you have two lists. The list on the left displays
- the actually mounted volumes. You can filter this list and display only
- volumes on the remote side of the connection by checking the "Only remote
- volumes" box. The list on the right is the list of volumes to mount when an
- ARA connection is established with this file.
- You can also extract mounting informations from aliases with the "Extract
- from alias" button.
- You can change the creator code of the connection file. It is useful to set the
- creator code to ARA+ because if you do so, ARA+ will establish the connection
- when you double click on the connection file from the finder.
-
- NOTE: Volume mounting only works when the connection is established by
- ARA+.
-
- WARNING: Opening a connection set with "Remote Access" or "Remote Access
- Personal" application and saving it will result in a loss of volume mounting
- informations.
-
- Version history
- -------------
-
- • Version 1.0.1
- Some beta versions were released to french networks. This was numbered 1.0.1
- instead of 1.0 to avoid confusion with these betas. This is the first final
- released version.
-
- • Version 1.0.2
- Corrects a bug preventing status to be displayed and disconnect button
- to work when ARA is in server mode.
- Corrects a bug causing a crash on non-color quickdraw machines.
- Corrects many bugs with the popUp setup dialog.
- Adds some new error message (instead of numbers) for CCL errors (No Dialtone,
- No Carrier, Busy, ...) and for AppleShare errors.
- Corrects a bug preventing disconnection when smart disconnect returned an error.
-
- • Version 1.0.3
- Ooooops ! I left a little bug when compiling 1.0.2 which prevented volume
- mounting from working correctly !
-
- BenH.
-