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AFP stands for "Advanced Function Printing" and "Apple Filing Protocol"

Advanced Function Printing is a format developed by IBM which is used for describing data which should be printed. Today it is mostly used in output-management for printing large scale documents.

Apple Filing Protocol is a network protocol developed by Apple which is used in Mac OS X and classic Mac OS.

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How to list AFP shares from command-line (MacOS)?

From the command-line, I need to list all the AFP shares available from a given server on a local network. I can browse the available servers that provides AFP as follow: iMac:bin me$ dns-sd -B _afpovertcp._tcp Browsing for…
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How to connect a Windows client to an OSX Server with AFP

We are using OSX servers and clients with AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) and want to connect the only Windows (Vista x64) client to the server shares without having to enable SMB. Is there still any AFP client for Windows available? All that I've found…
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Using watchdog of python to monitoring afp shared folder from linux

I want linux machine(Raspberry pi) to monitor a shared folder by AFP(Apple file protocol, macbook is host). I can mount shared folder by mount_afp, and installed watchdog python library to monitor a shared folder. The problem is that watchdog can…
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symbolic links work when shared to Windows or Linux (smb), but broken when shared to Mac (afp or smb)

On a Mac, I have a shared folder, ~\Documents. There are two subfolders, Data and Data_2011, the former containing folders of files from the last several years, and the latter containing symbolic links to the folders in the Data folder that have…
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How to access an AFP or SMB share (e.g. time capsule) in Swift or Obj-C

I am currently developing a tvOS/iPhone app. The goal is to browse my local network and find different devices that publish AFP and SMB shares, and read files from them. So far I have managed to find and list the different devices in my network…
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How To Tell What Version Of SMB Is Being Used?

I recall from a while ago, I used a command that enabled me to see what version of SMB (CIFS/SMB1/SMB2) active mounts were using. For the life of me I can't remember the command nor can I find it anywhere online. What is the command line command to…
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How to suppress / automatically dismiss error dialog in AppleScript

I have background process running as the logged on user that frequently tries to mount an AFP share to backup some data. If the share cannot be mounted this should just be ignored. In my script (bash, actually) I am mounting the share via an…
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How do I concatenate two AFP files together

I have two AFP files and I want to concatenate them together, how can I accomplish this. I have written java code to concatenate them, using BufferedInputStream and BufferedOutputStream and the result AFP is not correctly format. I even try to use…
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How can I export a AFP or XSL-FO file from Jasperreport

I am using Jasperreport to generate a report, it supports pdf, word, xml, and etc. file format, but there is no afp format, if anyone have some better solution, please tell me, thank you every much.
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Access an AFP share from iPhone?

I wonder whether it's possible to connect to an AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) share from my iPhone. I have a share in my WiFi network and would like to browse and read files on that share from my iPhone. Is there a way to do that with the official…
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AFP in Java Eclipse

I've been looking for days to find a way how to read in an Advanced Function Presentation file in so that it writes out on the console some information about the file (e.g. how many documents, how many pages a document has...). I have successfully…
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Bash on OSX: How to determine if network file (AFP) is in use?

I've got a bash script that runs on OSX. It needs to manipulate some files on a network-share (AFP share on a Synology NAS). Unfortunately those files are sometimes still being written when the script runs. How do I determine if the file is in use…
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Apache FOP AFP to XML conversion

I am looking for a Java API that provides functionality that will convert AFP(IBM Advanced Function Presentation)formatted documents to xml or pdf. I am trying to implement Apache FOP 1.1, but there is hardly no implementation documentation with…
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Reading\Writing Structured Binary File

i want to read\write a binary file which has the following structure: The file is composed by "RECORDS". Each "RECORD" has the following structure: I will use the first record as example (red)START byte: 0x5A (always 1 byte, fixed value 0x5A)…
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How to mount AFP share on macOS with ADSSO authentication?

I am trying to use NetFSMountURLSync to mount an AFP network share on a macOS machine, using ADSSO to authenticate against the server. When using the mount_afp binary to do the mounting, it is sufficient to specify the share URL as…
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