Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!sunee!erick
From: erick@sunee.waterloo.edu (Erick Engelke)
Subject: Re: NCSA vs CUTCP. What's the difference?
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.210442.27511@sunee.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1991Apr17.101536@fuggles.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 21:04:42 GMT
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In article <1991Apr17.101536@fuggles.acc.Virginia.EDU> marc writes:
>...
>But if you need to do something special-purpose with it (port
>whois or webster or finger or add a new way of getting the
>workstation's IP address or whatever), you can't.  And with NCSA's
>product (that's what we were comparing it to, right?), you can.
>

People interested in developing new applications might wish to look
at Waterloo TCP.  It's BSD UNIX-similar and applications can be easily adapted
to or from any of the commercial stacks.

FINGER, REXEC, and several other applications have already been ported
and typically with far less code that is necessary with NCSA.  Our 
PING, LPR, FINGER, and other programs are also far smaller than 
NCSA, typically less than 30K.

Source for the applications code is available via anonymous FTP to
sunee.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.128.196] in pub/wattcp/*.arc and an in-depth
manual is available at a fee.  There is no licensing fee or royalties.
Details of the mailing list are included in the archive files.

Source code for the TCP libraries themselves is not available publicly,
but the project is under active development so any bug reports are explored. 


Erick

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