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From: leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Communications Toolbox TCP Tool Needed
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.050736.13123@svc.portal.com>
Date: 17 Oct 90 05:07:36 GMT
References: <0B030501.QKT1KD@tbomb.ice.com> <6397@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <271B566B.5B65@intercon.com>
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In article <271B566B.5B65@intercon.com>, kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann)
writes:
> [discussion of Intercon Telnet Tool vs. TCPack from France]
>
> ...Sooo, I don't know what there is to like about the other product other 
> than price, and I don't think that price is an issue.  
> 
	There are other differences in the products other than price (as
one would expect).  I have used both of these tools (in fact I have used
both as testbeds to make sure that my CTB supporting application worked with
both) and personally prefer the Intercon tool for my use. The reason that I 
prefer the Intercon tool has to do with the philosophy behind the tools.  
	TCPack, as its name implies is a COMPLETE (or almost complete)
TCP/IP Connection Tool.  Not only does it handle Telnet, but it also provides
an FTP Server, and the ability to connect to any standard or user configured
'port' such as pop2, pop3, etc. If you find this kind of complete offering
handy, here you go.
	I, on the other hand, simply want to open up a telnet session on
my host.  To this end, Intercon's Telnet tool provides all of the standard
Telnet options (including local echo), and works quite nicely.  There is
only one 'page' of configurations (about 6 check boxes and an edit field
for the host info (name or address - including a popUp menu of the hosts
from your MacTCP hosts file), as opposed to the 6 (I believe) 'pages' of
options in TCPack.
	So, in addition to price, consider what you want to do and how you
wish to accomplish it.

Disclaimer: I know the folks at Intercon quite well, but have no financial
interest in their product line.
--
Leonard Rosenthol
Software Ventures Corp.
MicroPhone II Development Team