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From: bell@apple.com (Mike Bell)
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Subject: Re: MacTCP source code donation requested
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Date: 16 May 91 05:52:16 GMT
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In article <1991May15.123732.22837@am.dsir.govt.nz>, 
tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper) writes:
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> From: tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper)
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
> Subject: MacTCP source code donation requested
> Message-ID: <1991May15.123732.22837@am.dsir.govt.nz>
> Date: 15 May 91 12:37:32 GMT
> Sender: news@am.dsir.govt.nz
> Reply-To: sramtrc@albert.dsir.govt.nz
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> 
> I have just about finished writing a universal mounting package which, among
> other things lets you mount UNIX devices and files (but not filesystems) on
> the Mac desktop as a volume. So you can, for example, mount remote floppies
> or remote drives on your desktop. Also you can create a remote file and
> mount that too as a HFS volume. There is no need to mount UNIX filesystems
> since there are packages available to do that (eg CAP, NFS packages etc).
> 
> The problem is that it only works under A/UX because I only know how to use
> UNIX networking facilities. I thought it would be nice to use MacTCP so that
> the program would work under MacOS too. But I know as much as William
> Shakespeare about programming with MacTCP - I don't even know if it is
> possible to do it without buying extra libraries etc for THINK C.
> 
> If some kind person would donate to me some sample MacTCP code that connects
> with a remote rshd daemon, starts up a remote program, and communicates
> with that program then I would be grateful. In UNIX this is as easy as
> calling execl("/usr/ucb/rsh", "rsh", system, program). In MacTCP I bet it's
> a lot more difficult than that.
> 
> In return I will donate my program free to the Mac community rather than just
> the A/UX community.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tony Cooper
> sramtrc@albert.dsir.govt.nz



  The latest issue of Develop magazine has a great article about MacTCP written 
by one of the engineers here in DTS. It includes a tutorial article, code for 
utility routines, and source for a netnews reader. Check it out.......





            Mike Bell
            DTS