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From: ken@helix.nih.gov (Ken Weeks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: MacTCP problem
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Date: 1 Dec 90 02:22:00 GMT
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I'm having a little problem here...

I've been using NCSA Telnet to talk to my VAX, which is running a Telnet 
server.  I recently "converted" from the embedded TCP driver version to 
the Mac TCP version. No problems at first...but as of late, I've noticed a 
severe, repeatable "hang" when I use the VMS "TYPE" commands, or list a 
long directory. Just that session hangs - I can log in again and kill it 
from the VAX side. I tried dropping back to the embedded driver version of 
NCSA Telnet, and the problem goes away. And myPC (don't flame me, I gotta 
support these beasts, too!) doesn't hang using its version of NCSA Telnet, 
doing the same things on the VAX.

 I may have a sneaky INIT conflict here, and be unfairly blaming MacTCP 
(Forgive me, Great Rainbow Father in Cupertino). Any well-known conflicts 
out there?

For the record, I'm running on a IIci, System 6.0.7, Mac TCP 1.0.1, NCSA 
Telnet 2.3.1.  I've got a cache card, too (Micron), but turning it on and 
off seems to make no difference. 

For the poster looking for an SMTP mailer DA - I know, it's not a DA, but 
- I second the recommendation of the Eudora POP mail client by Steve 
Dorner. It's a jewel - we've been using it for the past month or so with 
no problems. 

Ken Weeks  National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
"Once in a while you get shown the light,
In the strangest of places, if you look at it right..."