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From: dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton)
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Subject: Re: Telnet 2.4Beta & MacTCP (MacTCP licensing)
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Date: 29 Aug 90 20:05:03 GMT
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In article <3007@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu writes:

>UW-Madison has a site license, so I bought a copy.  I'm confused by the
>documentation.  It sounds like the admin sets up a disk for users and then
>just gives it away as many times as he likes.  It says nothing about
>needing a license for each user-disk given away.  How does one interpret
>this?
>
>Paul DuBois
>dubois@primate.wisc.edu

The AdminTCP cDEV is for a network administrator to set up a MacTCP
master disk with numbers that can't be tampered with.  The assumption
in the documentation is that a local network administrator, who keeps
track of things like IP addresses, will be responsible for configuring
MacTCP, and the user will then just drop it into the system folder.
The administrator either sets up an individual disk for a user who has
bought MacTCP, or sets up a master for locations with a site license.
(The basic point being to have a network administrator do the
configuration, rather than a user who may not know what he or she is
doing.)

David

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