Introduction
Describes high-level concepts for Apple Filing Protocol commands.
Organization of This Document
This book contains the following chapters:
- Apple Filing Protocol Concepts describes the concepts used in the AFP architecture.
- Using Login Commands describes the commands used to open and close a connection with a file server.
- Using Volume Commands describes the commands for interacting with a file server volume.
- Using Directory Commands describes the commands for using directories.
- Using File Commands describes the commands for working on files.
- Using Combined Directory and File Commands describes commands that can be used on both files and directories.
- Using Fork Commands describes the commands to interact with data forks.
- Using Desktop Database Commands describes the commands to read and write information store in the server's desktop database.
See Also
Refer to the following reference document for AFP:
- Apple Filing Protocol Reference
The following sources provide additional information that may be of interested to AFP developers:
- Inside AppleTalk. Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-201-19257-8.
- Applied Cryptography, Second Edition, by Bruce Schneier. Specifically, the chapter on Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange.
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