Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!motcid!derosa
From: derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Telnet...TCP or NCSA ???
Message-ID: <4730@crystal9.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 90 14:48:48 GMT
References: <13794@slice.ooc.uva.nl>
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Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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cmorgan@ooc.uva.nl (Chris Morgan/RIKS) writes:

>Whats the difference between NCSA Telnet and TCP Telnet ??? When would it be
>best to use the one over the other ???

There are four different offshoots of V2.3 of TelNet that I now own:

TelNet NCSA 2.3 - The original
TelNet NCSA 2.3 (MacTCP) - The original with MacTCP support
TelNet NCSA/BYU 2.3.1 - The original with added support for host FTP, 
                surgery performed by Bringham Young University.
TelNet NCSA/BYU 2.3.2 (MacTCP) - The original with support for 
		host FTP and MacTCP.

Now....what does this all mean?

MacTCP - This feature is, at a simplistic level, a convienence for
        the macintosh user.  MacTCP is a CDEV that allows you to 
        set the TCP/IP information for you Macintosh in one spot,
        i.e. the control panel, instead of within the various 
        applications.  The advantage is that the addition of newer
	MacTCP friendly programs will be easier as they all find their
	network information in a common spot.  Other products that
	use this feature are tn3270 and Gator-Mail (SMTP gateway for
	MS Mail and QuickMail).

Host FTP - The standard way for a Macintosh user to xfer files from
	a distant computer to himself is to TelNet into the distant
	computer (know as the host) and FTP back to himself.  The 
	distant computer supports the host FTP session and the mac
	is the client.  Well any good computer should be able to 
	support host FTP, now the mac can also with two of the four versions
	of TelNet shown above.  Now you can FTP from the mac (the
	host) to the distant computer (the client).  Wow!  Now you
	can anonymous FTP into that favorite computer of yours.

P.S. Is V2.4 out of Beta yet?
P.P.S What is the state of TelNet for the (ugh) IBM-PC world? 
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