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From: ech@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacTCP ?
Message-ID: <662@cbnewsk.ATT.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 89 19:21:26 GMT
References: <1282@intercon.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <2553@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, currier@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov (Jeffrey M. Currier) writes:
> In the new version (2.3) of NCSA Telnet the talk about
> MacTCP.  I have an ethernet board in my Mac II, but I don't have
> MacTCP.  What are the advantages of MacTCP? How can I get it?
> Is it free? or How much?

From article <1282@intercon.UUCP>, by kdb@intercon.uu.net (Kurt Baumann):
> MacTCP can be gotten from APDA, I think that the cost is about $100.  It
> is a driver so that many applications may use it at the sametime...

Except that (1) NCSA Telnet needs to be rewritten (and large chunks scrapped
outright) to exploit MacTCP; and (2) Apple charges the distributor of a
program $2500 (one time, I think; or that may be annual; anybody on the net
from Apple SW licensing?) for distribution.  Now if Apple could waive the
fee for a PD program like this...

A more interesting question is what it might take to combine MacTCP with
the new Comm Manager -- there's not much to Telnet proper -- so most of 
the NCSA Telnet package is "in the libraries."  Hmm...

=Ned Horvath=