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From: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: X Windows and TCP/IP on the Macintosh
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Date: 11 Jun 90 19:56:50 GMT
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In article <9006071808.AA08561@xap>, stewart@xyplex.com (Bob Stewart) writes:
> Dear Generous Suppliers of Free Advice,
> 
> I'm using NCSA Telnet on my Macintosh to talk to a Unix system so I can
> communicate with the world.  It's connected through AppleTalk to a Gator Box.
> I'd like to have a more direct connection for mail, FTP, etc., as well as 
> X Windows access.
> 
> We're looking into White Pine Software's eXodus, which implements X Windows
> over a communication base such as Alisa Systems' TSS for DECnet or Apple's
> MacTCP for the Internet.  I'd like to hear from people who've tried that or
> who know anything interesting about it.  If I have MacTCP, can I run FTP,
> Telnet, eXodus, and such just as if I was on a Real :-) System?  If so, can
> they all run at once?  White Pine tells me that eXodus/MacTCP and NCSA Telnet
> are mutually exclusive.  If anyone from Apple or White Pine cares to respond,
> I won't consider it as a commercial message.
> 

Here is the scoop.  If you are using NCSA Telnet with the builtin NCSA TCP/IP
stack, then you cannot also use anything that uses MacTCP.  If, however,
you either get a commercial product that uses MacTCP (like TCP/Connect II,
or the UB product) or you get the NCSA Telnet that uses MacTCP, then you
can use other programs that use MacTCP at the sametime.  As far as I am aware
there should be no problem in using eXodus with other MacTCP compatable
products.

Hope that helps.

Kurt Baumann--