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From: han@Apple.COM (Byron Han)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Communications Toolbox V.S. MacTCP?
Message-ID: <52611@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 May 91 00:47:10 GMT
References: <1991May6.181911.15129@ymt.com>
Organization: Apple R&D - Networking & Communications
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In article <1991May6.181911.15129@ymt.com> mike@ymt.com (Michael Czeiszperger) writes:
>
>Does anyone know the difference between the Macintosh Communications
>Toolbox, CTB, and MacTCP?   From the documentation I have, both appear
>to handle remote sockets and ethernet type communications.
>
Macintosh Communications Toolbox == CTB
Specially, your question deals with the Connection Manager (part of CommToolbox)
vs MacTCP.  If you are writing an application that is to be transport
independent (i.e. data connection over a variety of transport protocols like
TCP/IP, ADSP, DECNet, SNA, X.25, etc) you should probably look into using the
Connection Manager.

If your application is only going to use MacTCP and indeed going to use 
specialized features of TCP/IP, you will use the MacTCP driver interface 
directly.

Hope this helps.


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