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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: whats different in NCSA Telnet +/- MacTCP?
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Date: 9 Apr 91 14:30:05 GMT
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In article <4355@ac.dal.ca> 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?

In order to participate on a TCP/IP network, you need software that
understands TCP/IP.

In the bad old days, this software was built into applications.  That
meant that only ONE such application could do TCP/IP at a time.  NCSA Telnet
was such an application (and still is, in the non-MacTCP version).  You
run NCSA Telnet, and nothing else that uses TCP/IP.

MacTCP is Apple's TCP/IP software, and it's written as a driver, meaning
that multiple applications can access it.  So, you can have the MacTCP
version of NCSA Telnet, and the HyperCard FTP stack, and a news reader,
and a mail program, and whatever other stuff you want, all going at the
same time.

If the only TCP/IP app you use is NCSA Telnet, it probably doesn't matter
much which one you use.  If you ever intend to use other TCP/IP services,
use the MacTCP version.
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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