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Add instructions for mounting AFP volumes in a shell.

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Mounting AFP Volumes in a Shell
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It is possible to mount AFP volumes from an ORCA, GNO, or APW shell command line. To do this, you should get the `Choose` utility produced by Apple. It is available on certain old Apple developer CDs, and in the Golden Orchard and Golden Grail software collections available for download [here][1]. On the Golden Orchard CD, the `Choose` command is available under `Programming:Apple:APW & ORCA Commands:Gregs.APW.Utils`. (The actual command is in the `Utilities` directory, and documentation is in the `Documentation` and `Utilities:Help` directories.)
`Choose` takes an argument of the form `zone:server:volume` to specify the server and volume to connect to. To connect to a server over TCP/IP, the server name is an IP address or host name, and a special zone name must be used. This is `AFP over TCP`, optionally followed by a parenthesized list of option codes as given in the table below. Multiple option codes should be separated by commas.
| Code | Option |
|:-----|:---------------------------------|
| `LR` | Use Large Reads |
| `LW` | Use Large Writes |
| `22` | Force AFP Version 2.2 |
| `FS` | Fake Sleep to Keep Alive |
| `IE` | Ignore Errors Setting File Types |
As an example, the following command could be used to connect to a server on the local network as a guest, using large reads and large writes:
Choose -guest "AFP over TCP (LR,LW):192.168.1.10:A2FILES"
See the documentation on `Choose` for more information about its arguments, including how to specify a username and password.
Note that AFPBridge is currently not able to send regular 'tickle' messages to keep AFP connections alive when a text-based shell is active. This may cause the server to terminate the connection if there is no activity for some length of time. You can avoid this by using the `FS` (Fake Sleep to Keep Alive) option, if it works with your server.
AFP volumes can be unmounted using the `Eject` command, available in the same place as `Choose`.
[1]: http://digisoft.callapple.org