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From: jgd@rsiatl.UUCP (John G. DeArmond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: PC/TCP 's API specifications
Message-ID: <4088@rsiatl.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 90 03:21:11 GMT
References: <1990Sep24.172451.4576@xanadu.com>
Organization: Radiation Systems, Inc. (a thinktank, motorcycle, car and gun works facility)
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>In article <1163900002@ax> Macio Lima writes:
>>
>>Can anyone send me the PC/TCP (FTP Software) 's application program interface
>>for DOS ? Does FTP have any TCP/IP for Unix ???
>>
>>Marcio Lima

PC/TCP is  probably a good product but it is worthless for developers.
Why?  Simple.  They want to charge a per-machine license fee of 
around $200 for every copy of your product built using the library that
you sell or give away. And they seem to be extremely inflexable about
the situation.  I called in regards to another client a few months ago
and a collegue called yesterday and the story is the same.  The only
deviation the sales geek mentiones is that if one buys many, many copies
at once, the site license price is $75.00 ea. Which still has no 
relavence to developers.

Until they get their act togehter and/or they get some real competition,
(wollingong does about the same crap), developers will be better off
taking something like PC/IP or ncsa TELNET and hacking out a library
from it - or writing one of your own.  The packet driver interface
makes the task pretty easy.

John

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