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From: cjdb@midway.uchicago.edu (Charles Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: SU-PC/IP (Was: Re: Where can I get the PCIP spec?)
Message-ID: <1990Jul15.064627.17824@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 15 Jul 90 06:46:27 GMT
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In article <1990Jul7.035507.23173@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ernie@po.CWRU.Edu writes:
>[...]
>While on the subject of SU-PC/IP, I'll point out that it has a decent
>implementation of MH using POP, which allows secure mail handling on
>a PC.  It also has FTP and the venerable PCIP Telnet, and BOOTP support.
>We have added a Packet Driver interface, though this is not part of
>the standard distribution.  I'm not sure what the current distribution
>policy is, but Stanford previously sold academic site licenses for $100.

My experience with this product is that it inevitably hangs the
machine if you use it long enough in a session (both its ftp and
telnet implementations). Others at the University of Chicago have had
this experience (disclaimer: I am not speaking as a representative of
the University, but as an end-user only). Too bad, because mh is my
regular mailer, and I would like to use it on the PC as well (an AST
Premium 386). I should point out that Stanford's documentation says
that one shouldn't run their product with any TSR's in memory -- in
this day and age that's an unreasonable requirement.

I've switched to FTP's product, and like it, with the following
exceptions: I wish smtpsrv was implemented as a TSR, so I wouldn't
have to run it at night to get all the day's mail, and I wish it
didn't grab the keyboard interrupt so thoroughly that my CapsLock -->
Ctrl redefinition was disabled (I use a well-behaved hook to do this).
But so far it certainly seems to be a robust enough product.

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