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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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Subject: Re: mac to mac ftp with NCSA Telnet 2.3?
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Date: 15 Mar 91 16:34:28 GMT
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In article <813@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> hellwig@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Oliver Hellwig ) writes:
>
>Currently NCSA telnet for the MAC can only accept incomming ftp's (i.e.
>you won't be able to ftp out of a MAC with NCSA telnet 2.3).  It's
>a small inconvience compared the other overall quality of this excellient
>piece of free software.
>

I would say that not being able to ftp out (like ftpbin does with 
NCSA_Telnet for the PC) renders the whole thing worthless for me. 
(How, for instance, do you download files from anonymous ftp sites.
How do you transfer files from a Mac with a CD ROM player to a PC -
when you are always needing to change CD-ROMS and the PC is in 
another room?)

Besides, you cannot properly set up key mappings with the Mac version.
Therefore I would conclude that the Mac version is, to use the classic Usenet
phrase, terminally brain-dead. 


Doug McDonald