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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: Communications Manager
Message-ID: <7764@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 25 Jun 89 21:59:27 GMT
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Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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I have some questions about the Communications Toolbox --

(1)  What is the connection between statements about licensing and
statements that this will become a standard part of the OS with System
7.0?  Do all products using it have to license it (if they provide a
copy) or will it be subsumed under distributing the Apple system
software for licensing purposes?

(2)  The distributed diagrams show only serial port support built in.
I am surprised that support for network terminals (using TCP and ADSP)
and network file transfer (using FTP and perhaps client-side AFP)
weren't slated for the first release.  Will these be added later or is
this being left for third parties?  If only serial connections modules
are being provided, how sure can we be that it is general enough for
LAN use?

(3)  Will it be compatible with System 6.0.3 as well as 7.0?

(4)  What responsibilities of terminal emulation are left to the
application (or other calling) software?  For instance, do the built-in
terminal emulators implement scrollback and connection-time saving to
disk, or are there callback hooks to allow client software to handle
these features?

Thanks for any help you can give....
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com
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