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From: drz@po.cwru.edu (David Zinkin)
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Subject: Re: Comm ToolBox availability?
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Date: 2 Dec 90 05:49:59 GMT
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What difference does it make who downloads the Communications Toolbox, anyway? 
It's free to subscribers of these services, so it's not as if Apple will lose
money by giving the CTB away via USENET.  And that excuse doesn't really hold
water with regard to FTP -- *that* distribution method should definitely allow
Apple to tell who downloaded the CTB.

On a related note -- I just perused the directories on apple.com (130.43.2.2)
last night and found several unusually large files:

Eudora, Serial version
Eudora, MacTCP version
forLou.sit

The copies of Eudora seemed much larger than the ones I had seen on other FTP
sites, so I downloaded them to find out what was up.  Wouldn't you know -- the
serial Eudora had a copy of the Communications Toolbox (only three tools, but
the Installer was intact), and the MacTCP version had copies of MacTCP and
AdminTCP!  And the "forLou.sit" file had a copy of MacX!

Now, what's the story?  Apple seems to have gone to great lengths to write
these "licensing agreements" and then breaks them!  I deleted MacX since it is
-- I think -- a commercial product (I have no use for it anyway), and I trashed
MacTCP and AdminTCP since my university has a site license for MacTCP.  But
what about the CTB?  Do I now have to delete it or can I keep it, since *Apple*
was the source?

 -- Dave Zinkin (INTERNET: drz@po.cwru.edu)

P.S. If it *is* permissible for me to keep and use the CTB, could someone
please E-mail me the missing tools in BinHex form?  (I have the Apple Modem
Tool, the Modem Tool, and the Serial Tool.)