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From: ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Lanett)
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Subject: Re: The `correct' way to use MacTCP with System 7.0
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Date: 15 May 91 03:18:45 GMT
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steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield;232HMB;3-6292;;MF62) writes:

>In article <9549@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
[getting MacTCP working deleted]
>Your method is what NCSA recommends. However, other problems with
>MacTCP are reported. Apparently, while it is running, your Apple
>menu does not work properly; if you try to launch something it
>just beeps. (This problem may only occur with NCSA Telnet 2.3,
>and may be OK with 2.4. If so, then it is a Telnet problem and
>not a MacTCP problem.) Apple (as of a demo I went to today)
>is promising a new version of MacTCP in June or July. MacTCP
>also does not work with virtual memory.

*None* of this is the case. I'm running MacTCP 1.0 (!) under Sys 7.0b4 on a IIfx
with VM on, and have had no definite problems with it. I'm using the latest
version of Telnet, 2.4b11. I've done plenty of paging it in and out, also. I
say definite because the two crashes I've had occurred when Telnet was in the
background and I was using SADE -- I blame SADE, but could be wrong. I've heard
of problems with FTP but haven't had problems with my own FTP'ing.

>Everything I've just written is hearsay which I get directly
>from either NCSA, Apple, or the workstation support people
>at UC Berkeley.

It helps to run it yourself and find out.

>Steve Goldfield
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