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From: ukt101@ukcc.uky.edu (Charles Bynaker)
Subject: Re: MacTCP applications: What's good, what's bad, what's where?
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1991 16:25:34 GMT
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In article <CKD.91May24112306@eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
>I used to sit and read comp.sys.mac.comm and say "Hey, that program
>there sounds really cool, but it requires MacTCP, and all I have is a
>weenie little 2400 non-MNP modem.  Oh well."
>
>Well, now I have a job, and the job has Macs, and the Macs have Ethernet
>and Fastpaths and all sorts of spiffy networking stuff.  And MacTCP.
>
>(Oh, and System 7.0, too. ;-)
>
>So what's out there to do what?  What's good?  What's not so good?  I'm
>looking for ANYTHING that uses MacTCP; commercial stuff is not excepted
>(though it may lose out to freeware sometimes).
>
>And, just as importantly, where do I get it?  Quite a bit of this stuff
>is ftpable (after all, they *ARE* TCP/IP programs), but where?
>
>I'd say "mail me and I'll summarize," but this is the kind of thing that
>benefits from a vigorous discussion.  Besides, it'll give everyone a
>chance to say "but it doesn't work with System 7". ;-)
>
>--Chris
>-- 
>Christopher Davis, System Manager & Postmaster, Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Xferit from sumex-aim is excellent for transfer and viewing text files online. 
TheNews an NNTP reader, the one used to post this followup.
Brown's tn3270
NCSA telnet
MacUWS from Ungermann - Bass a lot like Xferit but with terminal emulators.