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From: german@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Gregory German)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: whats different in NCSA Telnet +/- MacTCP?
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Date: 9 Apr 91 14:22:21 GMT
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ireland@ac.dal.ca writes:

>Hello, could somebody explain the difference between the version of 
>NCSA Telnet that requires MacTCP and the one that doesn't? Does the
>one that uses MacTCP enable one to do more? I have MacTCP but don't
>have a very good idea of what it's doing.

MacTCP provides you with a common interface to the TCP/IP world.  Using it for
your applications will allow you to avoid duplicating entries such as IP#,
gateway IP#, netmask, etc. for each application.  It will also aid you in
getting multiple TCP/IP applications to run together.  If every application
had its own implementation of the TCP/IP stack there would be very little hope
that you could get them to cooperate with regards to access to the network
interface.

>Thanks for your help.
>Keith Conover
>ireland@ac.dal.ca

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