âº ârelating to the âwhole of something or to the âtotal âsystem âinstead of just to âits âparts âº Holistic âmedicine âattempts to âtreat the âwhole âperson, âincluding âmind and âbody, not just the âinjury or âdisease. (Definition of holistic from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Â© Cambridge University Press).
AFP is clearly superior to SMB or NFS for Mac OS 8.1-OS X 10.8 clients. AFP is the native file and printer sharing protocol for Macs and it supports many unique Mac attributes that are not supported by other protocols. So for the best performance, and 100% compatibility, AFP should be used.
It's also possible that you have the correct application on your PC, but .afp files aren't yet associated with it. In this case, when you try to open a .afp file, you can tell Windows which application is the correct one for that file. From then on, opening a .afp file will open the correct application.