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From: perl@PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Telnet INTO a Mac ?
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.060629.22944@PacBell.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 91 06:06:29 GMT
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In article <18447@milton.u.washington.edu> owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) writes:
>In article <1991Mar14.060604.19964@PacBell.COM> perl@PacBell.COM (Richard
>Perlman) writes:
>>>In article <1991Mar14.011826.18836@marlin.jcu.edu.au> chma@marlin.jcu.edu.au
>(Michael Antolovich) writes:
>>> I know all about (sort of) NCSA Telnet etc.  What I would like to know 
>>> is :-  Is there any software that would allow a Telnet session into a Mac ? 
[comments re: VersaTerm's Telnet problems deleted]
>NCSA/BYU Telnet is worlds better than the new VersaTerm for telnet and ftp.
>VersaTerm does serial well, and does better Tek 4105 emulation (NCSA is still
>ironing it out)... ...-- VersaTerm is one of the best-supported pieces of
>software I have seen. 

The original request was for telnet INTO a MAC.  VersaTerm does
it, and to my knowledge is the only program that does.  Agreed,
ftp would probably be a better solution, but that wasn't the
question.

As for a comparison between VersaTerm and other Mac/Telnet
implementations:  We have NCSA Telnet, TCP/Connect II and VersaTerm 4.5
and I have used them all.  VersaTerm is limited as a telnet
implementation, for many of the reasons cited, however... It is fast,
much faster screen refresh than the NCSA/InterCon product.


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