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From: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Communications Toolbox TCP Tool Needed
Message-ID: <271CD7B9.6C18@intercon.com>
Date: 17 Oct 90 22:14:17 GMT
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In article <1990Oct17.050736.13123@svc.portal.com>, leonardr@svc.portal.com
(Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
> 	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
> 

Thanks, I'm glad someone who has really used both spoke up.  One thing that
you missed, however, is that you can also open a raw TCP connection.  This
will allow your program to connect to just about anything it wants to over
that TCP connection.

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Kurt Baumann                       InterCon Systems Corporation
703.709.9890                      Creators of fine TCP/IP products
703.709.9896 FAX               for the Macintosh.