Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!geac!alias!rae From: rae@alias.com (Reid Ellis) Subject: Re: New XferIt Mac FTP Client Available Message-ID: <1991Apr30.024632.10487@alias.com> Sender: news@alias.com (USENET News) Organization: Alias Research, Inc. Toronto ON Canada References: <1991Apr24.231116.16316@engin.umich.edu> <1991Apr24.231416.16415@engin.umich.edu> <1991Apr25.224250.9816@colorado.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 02:46:32 GMT Bernie Bernstein writes: >If you have MacTCP in the System Folder with an alias in Control Panels, >the XferIt 1.3 will fail to find MacTCP. So you should put MacTCP in >the System Folder AND in Control Panels (not an alias) so MacTCP will >work with all programs that search in either place for it. > >Eventually, all programs will work with MacTCP in just the Control Panels >folder (maybe). So we are now in the changover process where we need to >accommodate programs that work either way until they are all recompiled >using the newer libraries. It should be pointed out that there are calls to resolve aliases under system 7 -- will XferIt be adding these calls anytime soon? Or is this buried in the guts of the Mac TCP libraries linked into the program? Reid -- Reid Ellis 1 Trefan Street Apt. E, Toronto ON, M5A 3A9 rae@utcs.toronto.edu || rae@alias.com CDA0610@applelink.apple.com || +1 416 362 9181 [work]