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From: martin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Martin Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Telnet/FTP aailable?
Message-ID: <14615@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 24 Sep 90 15:35:35 GMT
References: <1237000015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <1617.26fde987@waikato.ac.nz>
Reply-To: martin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Martin Hunt)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1617.26fde987@waikato.ac.nz> hamish@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>In article <1237000015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>> Does anybody know the status of commodore's ETHERNET board and software?
>> We are planning to buy an A2000HD and want to hook up to Ethernet to use
>> Telnet and FTP. I called Commodore, but I was unable to reach anyone who
>> had any idea what I was talking about. Will the Commodore software, when and if
>> it comes out, support Telnet and FTP?
>>
>
> At the moment Commodore here distribute the board, which is exactly the same
>as the Ameristar board with (I think) version 3 of the Ameristar software. New
>software is due soon, according to the press releases of a few months ago.

The Commodore board is almost the same as the Ameristar board.  You cannot
use the Commodore board with Ameristar 3.0 software.  However, the Commodore
TCP/IP software will work with Ameristar boards.
>
>The ver 3 software does nfs client stuff and tftp, not sure about telnet.

FTP and Telnet are included in the Commodore software.