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From: rex@nbc1.ge.com (Rex Espiritu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Letter to Unix Today re: Crossings: From Mac to Unix, p18 9/3/90
Keywords: Macintosh Connectivity Unix Today
Message-ID: <1990Sep5.191401.26609@nbc1.ge.com>
Date: 5 Sep 90 19:14:01 GMT
Reply-To: rex@nbc1.GE.COM (Rex Espiritu)
Organization: National Broadcasting Company, Inc., New York
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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 90 15:05:40 EDT
From: rex@nbc1 (Rex Espiritu)
To: postmaster@utoday
Subject: Crossings: From Mac to Unix, p. 18, Sept. 3, 1990, by Philip J. Gill
Cc: sean@utoday

In the article specified by the subject heading above, it states:

"DOS-based PCs aren't the only kind of desktop computers... some users
need to interface their Apple Macintosh personal computers to Unix
systems as well.  For these users, there are considerably fewer
options, however.  My [Philip J. Gill's] research has turned up only
two choices...  MacLine, from Touchstone Software... [and]
...MacBlast, from Communications Research Group of Baton Rouge, LA..."

While there may be "fewer" options, there are certainly more than two
choices.  And though I'm not very familiar with the two mentioned
above, I don't think I'd select them as my choice(s).

I'm writing this article via NCSA Telnet/FTP v2.3 from my office Mac
w/ EtherCard over the ethernet to our Sun.  We have connectivity via
TCP/IP to our other Unix machines as well, including Ultrix, Xenix,
et. al.  We have Kinetics FastPath-4 boxes and a Cayman GatorBox
bridging Apple/Local/EtherTalk with TCP/IP over the Ethernet with NFS
and CAP (Columbia AppleTalk Package) giving us centralized shared file
services and print spooling capabilities.  We're also aware of Mt
Xinu's K-AShare and K-Spool products.  There's also MacX, MacTCP,
MacWorkstation, etc. from Apple/APDA.

For e-mail we have QuickMail v2.2 and I believe there is a gateway to
Unix sendmail (SMTP) that we're looking into as well.

For serial communications, we have several terminal emulators:
MacTerminal, White Knight, White Pine Software, Reflections (Walker
Richer & Quinn), Kermit, etc.

There is a broader view of Mac-to-Unix connectivity and certainly more
such products available than your article seems to suggest.

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