Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!bruce!merlin!morgana!ianh From: ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: MacX TCP tool? Message-ID: Date: 31 Aug 90 15:23:10 GMT References: <1990Aug29.172633.3490@csun.edu> <19898.651955540@GNOME.CS.CMU.EDU> Sender: usenet@bhpmrl.oz.au Lines: 35 Ravinder.Chandhok@CS.CMU.EDU (Rob Chandhok) writes: >Here's what I think the situation is: >* Apple is supporting MacX >* MacX is shipping, but is usually bundled with AU/X 2.0, so its announcement > went unnoticed by many people. >* MacX seems to work Well I've playing around with MacX for a couple of months now (we are beta testing the new DEC LANworks for Mac stuff & MacX comes with it). It *does* work - the version I have is 1.01a so I think there will be even newer versions around now. >* MacX requires the Communications Toolbox and MacTCP to be useful in an IP > world. You are right, it does need the new comms toolbox goodies, but has lots of flexibility in the protocols it can use for it's connections because of that, ie. TCP/IP (MacTCP), LAT, ADSP, DECnet etc. -- Ian Hoyle /\/\ Image Processing & Data Analysis Group / / /\ BHP Melbourne Research Laboratories / / / \ 245 Wellington Rd, Mulgrave, 3170 / / / /\ \ AUSTRALIA \ \/ / / / \ / / / Phone : +61-3-560-7066 \/\/\/ FAX : +61-3-561-6709 E-mail : ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au