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From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: MacTerminal 3.0 (more technical stuff)
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Date: 23 Apr 91 22:44:09 GMT
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I have been running around trying to find out some more detailed
information about MacTerminal 3.0, but the mystery goes on. If I could
even find access to a mac running the program, that would answer half
of my questions. Can anyone tell me the following:

1. MacTCP - There was a clear communication gap between myself and
the infinitely patient person at the Apple Assistance Center. Is
there a Telnet tool available from Apple for MacTerminal? (I know
there is at least something included with some third party products.)
The person I was speaking to there seemed to indicate that MacTerminal
came out of the box working with MacTCP. From everything I heard, this
was not the case. What's the deal?

2. Kermit, YMODEM, ZMODEM - Are all of these file transfer tools
available and work with MacTerminal? Are any of them public domain?
(I would hope that at least Kermit is for legal reasons; I don't
know about the others.)

3. FTP - Is an FTP file transfer tool available? Does it even make
sense to have an FTP file transfer tool, or is FTP not the kind
of thing suited to a file transfer tool? If so, is it commercial or
shareware?

4. Do tools that anyone else writes drop right in to MacTerminal
such as terminal emulators or connection tools, or is there some
special stuff that a programmer (perhaps myself in the future) will
need to do to make stuff MacTerminal compatible?

5. Will it work just ducky with my good old 2400 baud Everex modem?
Is it configurable so that I can insert things into the AT line
(like L0 to lower the volume)?

Thanks in advance for answers. If anyone in the Champaign-Urbana area
is running MacTerminal 3.0, I would love to take a look before I buy
it.

pr

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