Introduction

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:

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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